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All Quiet on the Western Front

Im Westen nichts Neues

2022

Edward Berger

Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus ...

7.2

21,164

War. Action. Drama A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.

	Media	Author	Review
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A wrenching, visceral adaptation (...) [It] is gruellingly realistic"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"[It] takes a dark story and makes it even darker. Like most formidable war movies, it’s hard to watch and hard to shake."
		John Nugent Empire	"Another stunning adaptation of the classic anti-war novel: epic and horrific, in equal doses. War has rarely felt this wretchedly, desperately pointless (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A skillfully made picture with a high tolerance for muck, it’s a visceral experience, albeit a less punishing one than some other modern war films, such as Sam Mendes’ 1917"
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"[It] movingly captures the humanity amid the frying shrapnel (...) History nerds will note the efforts to capture the conflict's realities, but the Spielbergian grace notes are a real strength too (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ed Power Telegraph	"The First World War is reimagined as a symphony of mud, teen angst and terrible beauty in 'Im Westen nichts Neues', Edward Berger's stunning retelling of Remarque's anti-war novel (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Katie Rife IndieWire	"Edward Berger’s handsome, but expected version of the story doesn’t add much to the canon except for some starkly beautiful imagery."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A substantial, serious work, acted with urgency and focus and with battlefield scenes whose digital fabrications are expertly melded into the action. It never fails to do justice to its subject matter (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"A movie that shows us war is not a video game, and this one does that very well."
		Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"Ultimately, I found this more amusing than disquieting (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Marya E. Gates The Playlist	"Berger finds beauty in all the bloodshed, but mostly he finds hypocrisy in the senseless slaughter of nearly a whole generation’s worth of the nation’s young men."
		Stephen Applebaum Radio Times	"Berger stages the film's battle scenes in ways both epic and intimate, reaching new levels of horror with each charge across the blasted landscape (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A brilliant and bruising and epic adaptation (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A brilliant and bruising and epic adaptation (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A World War I Drama That’s Dutifully Competent and Dull (...) Edward Berger's German remake is done in the standard existential bombs-bursting-in-earth mode, but it's been made with no special flair and says nothing new"
		Sarah Milner SlashFilm	"A bleak, beautiful, anti-war film (...) a grueling, wretched depiction of the physical, financial, and psychological toll that The Great War had on the German people"
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"One of the most visceral, immersive WWI movies ever made (...) It's certainly one to keep an eye out for"
		Matthew Jackson AV Club	"Director Edward Berger injects visceral intensity and visual poetry into his powerful adaptation of Erich Maria"
		Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"This new version of an old tale has the capacity to horrify you into shell-shocked pacifism, while delivering a few minor-key surprises along the way"
		Soham Gadre The Film Stage	"Its most morally dubious but cinematically appreciative quality is that it's entertaining to watch"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"It’s sensory-overload, tough-though-rewarding viewing. Gargantuan and detailed (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Susanne Gottlieb Cineuropa	"A haunting tale of the price of war and its unhinged enforcers"
		Maggie Lovitt Collider	"[It] has a stunning sound design; one that sets teeth on edge and rattles within the chests of its audience"
		Mel Valentin Screen Anarchy	"While fine in its details of a German soldier's life and death during the First World War, adding an exacting verisimilitude that's a must for an adaptation of Remarque's work in the 21st century, [it] isn't without minor issues"

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