A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.... (Full plot summary below)
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A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
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| Consequence of SoundDan CaffreyThe Golden Glove definitely isn’t for everyone, and even when divorced from its more transgressive scenes, it’s not exactly a pleasant viewing experience. But for those not repulsed to the point of leaving the theater, there’s a lonely, human heart at its center. |
| Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarDassler’s personification of the real-life infamous and misogynistic character — his walk, his speech patterns — consistently startles. |
| The A.V. ClubKatie RifeWhatever pleasure there is to be found in watching a film like The Golden Glove is in the intellectualizing, and the film does prompt a series of provocative questions about the implicit contract between artist and audience. |
| CineVueRory O’ConnorWere it not for these overwrought provocations The Golden Glove could have been Akin’s most accomplished work in years. Aesthetically speaking it remains a marvel. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAs played with startlingly veracity by Jonas Dassler, there's nothing romantic about him: a deformed nose, shuffling gait, slack-jawed and with a misaligned eye, he looks exactly like the man responsible for the deaths of at least four women in 1970s Hamburg. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMost true crime fans know that the real stories that have enraptured them in film and television are much crueler and grosser than their fictionalized counterpart. If Akin’s goal is merely to pull away that curtain, it ultimately feels like a hollow unveiling. |
| Screen DailyWendy IdePerhaps the question is not whether the film needed to be so relentlessly grim, but rather whether it needed to be made at all. |
| TheWrapMichael NordineThe whole affair feels, quite simply, icky in a way that superior projects like “Zodiac” and “Memories of Murder” never do; to his movie’s detriment, Akin seems more interested in merely depicting what happened than taking a stab at why. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawApart from its grisliness, its hopelessness, and its pointlessness, what strikes you most about this true-crime movie is its brownness. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichFor better or worse, Akin’s eye remains a remarkable thing, as he arranges even the most emptily nihilistic parts of The Golden Glove with the gravitas of arresting visual geometry, and casts every role to sick perfection. It’s just his vision that seems to be the problem. |
