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Movie Overview
Cast
• Christian Friedel
• Leonie Benesch
• Ulrich Tukur
Director
• Michael Haneke
MPAA Rating
R - for some disturbing content involving violence and sexuality.
Theatrical Release
Dec 30, 2009 (Limited)
The White Ribbon (2009)

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OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh
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4/5
"The slippery nature of the morality on show coupled with the shifting sands of the narrative makes this an uneasy watch - yet it is also a beautiful and masterfully constructed film."  Eye for Film  Amber Wilkinson

3.5/5
"As an anatomisation of the insular envy, malice and brutality that would lead to the rise of Nazism, The White Ribbon is clinically precise - but also just a little dull."  Channel 4 Film  Anton Bitel

A
"An utterly nerve-wracking, edge-of-my-seat experience - certain scenes that consisted of little more than, say, a measured conversation between father and son are, in context, unbelievably suspenseful."  Cinematical  Eugene Novikov

3/4
"Something of a distant Teutonic cousin to Henri-Georges Clouzot's caustic Le Corbeau, White Ribbon amply displays Haneke's filmmaking mastery."  Slant Magazine  Fernando F. Croce

5/5
" A dark and foreboding film about the seeds of anger, violence, and hatred in the home that can lead to war and the rise of fascism."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

"And that little boy grew up to be%u2026Hermann Goering?"  The L Magazine  Henry Stewart

3.5/5
"full review on Movies for the Masses"  Movies for the Masses  Joseph Proimakis

C+
"Another of the Funny Games auteur's unpersuasively rigid portraits of man's venality."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

4/5
"Strikingly well-made, with a riveting series of events and a growing sense of depth that makes it disturbingly relevant on several levels."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline
OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh
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