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| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangThroughout this movie, an absorbing, barbed and frequently funny evisceration of artistic ego, Petzold practices a deft and disarming sleight of hand, using key details to keep the viewer off balance and deliver a stinging rebuke to Leon’s myopia. |
| Original-CinLiam LaceyOn an obvious level, it’s a character study of the artist as an insufferable young prig, a type that, as Petzold no doubt knows, is familiar to the point of cliché. But as the film unfolds, and boldly shifts tone, the character suggests the larger theme of struggling to stay humane in a broken world. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeIt’s the film’s great, disorienting structural risks, its humoring of human untidiness and confusion, that make it so subtly thrilling and moving. |
| The PlaylistSavina PetkovaAfire is the uncompromising work of a master not only on conceptual and stylistic levels but also in terms of his emotional politics. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyLike all of Petzold’s recent pictures, Afire draws you in confidently and prepares its knockout emotional punch with scrupulousness and a vivid sense of surprise. |
| TheWrapTomris LafflyFew movies this year will be as quietly sizzling as German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s “Afire,” a novelistic and sophisticated character study that kindles inside a chamber piece, as languid as a relaxed summer day and as heartbreaking as the end of a short-lived summer love. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe dramedy of manners is as rich and rewarding an experience as any of Petzold’s more ambitious films. Afire arrives like a calm wind, and leaves with everything and everyone perfectly scorched. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisThe German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s spiky and at times mordantly funny Afire is a tonic for moviegoers tired of nice, squishable, likable, relatable dull and dull characters. |
| Slant MagazinePat BrownAfire builds a story that begins as a hangout comedy with a sad-sack at its center but gradually becomes a slow-motion conflagration that offers no easy answers. |
| The Daily BeastNick SchagerAnother [Petzold] masterwork about characters who are trapped by internal and external circumstances from which they find it intensely difficult to escape. |
