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(1 - 16) of 16 OFCS Rating: 81% Fresh Page   1   "With ensemble performances as intense as its drama, The Edge of Heaven leaves the viewer, like Nejat, sitting and waiting in patient awe for an end that will blow in either heavenly reconciliation or hellish oblivion."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel 2.5/4 "Akin's Head-On infused its hellish misfit romance with in-your-face violence; here even two violent deaths are rendered discreetly to the point of bloodlessness."   Slant Magazine   Bill Weber "Leaves behind the raw power and direct impact tactics of Gegen die Wand (Head-on) for something more evocative and complex."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij 2.5/5 "a globetrotting human-rights drama about deported Turkish renegades and the lesbians and bookshop owners who love them."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 3/5 "Un drama sobre encuentros y desencuentros, azar y fatalidad, entre Alemania y Turquía. No carece de interés, pero le falta rigurosidad dramática."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio "Hanna Schygulla cuts through platitudes with a privately fierce, graceful sense of spiritual space"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce A- "Intricate emotionally as well as in narrative terms, poignant but not mawkish, and told in an austerely compelling style, this is a wise and absorbing drama."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "Depicts the messy and complicated feelings connected with familial love, commitments, and dealing with strangers."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3.5/4 "The Edge of Heaven explores topics as varied as the tensions that accompany multiculturalism and globalization to the simpler human drama of how individuals cope with losses for which they bear a portion of the responsibility."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Strong and artful and well-made, but it also feels like its unpredictability is actually predictable, that its unconventional narrative is, in fact, conventional."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 8/10 "It isn't enough for director and writer Fatih Akin to show that we're all only a few degrees from each other across countries; rather, he's also interested in the level of connectedness."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen A+ "Akin's latest masterwork may...mark him as the man to inherit the mantle of the late, great Krzysztof Kieslowski."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 5/5 "Akin's visual style is both moody and fluid, catching the emotional layers of each scene without sentimentalising anything"   Film Threat   Rich Cline A "[Writer-director] Faith Akin is a real force as a filmmaker and gives us an intelligent and thought-provoking work of art."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford A "Akin doesn't hide the fatal destinies of major characters... but it's the lives of the survivors and how they choose to carry on that carry these crisscrossing stories."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 9/10 "What makes the film remarkable is how delicately it whips up its intricate contrivances; what makes it a masterpiece is that it does none of the things we expect with those contrivances."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 16) of 16 OFCS Rating: 81% Fresh Page   1