Critic Reviews

I don't claim to have seen every entry from around the world, but it's hard to imagine five better than this deliciously offbeat comedy, as wildly inventive as anything Billy Wilder ever conceived.

In a disarmingly entertaining fashion, this multiaward-winning German bittersweet comedy seems to encapsulate all the emotion and drama of that profound geopolitical event.

This is a very funny picture, though it's never burlesqued and is, in fact, occasionally poignant.

Reveals more about the German people through sentimental comedy than such overtly political films as "The Nasty Girl" or "The Marriage of Maria Braun."

One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen lately, but it has a biting knowledge of that which history gives and history takes away.

A funny and intermittently sharp German satire that musters gentle nostalgia for East German communism while mocking the not-so-distant past.

One of those gratifyingly nostalgic works of art that accept the present day but remind us, as well, that the past wasn't necessarily worse.

A romantic comedy so smart and sweetly mature, it's liberating.

Funny but not a comedy, serious but never overbearing, emotional in an engaging and bittersweet way, Good Bye, Lenin! is a wonderful film unto itself about a world unto itself.

Marvelously entertaining, and occasionally brilliant, political satire.