Storyline
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
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88
Rolling Stone
This is Soderbergh's show, and a haunting and hypnotic show it is.
80
Blanchett gets everything right -- the accent, her German dialogue, the weary sexuality (deliberately reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich) and the amorality her character has embraced.
75
Entertainment Weekly
The leisure-time viewer will say, ''Hey, this is sort of like "Casablanca," so why play it again?''
63
The Good German, Steven Soderbergh's film noir homage, is nearly perfect when it comes to style and tone, but it concentrates so single-mindedly on the mechanics of the narrative that it loses sight of its characters.
50
Variety
For actor and director, the project seems like trying on a new coat, and it doesn't fit either of them.
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