Berlin, July 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference and issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime... (Full plot summary below)
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Berlin, July 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference and issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.
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| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsSteven Soderbergh massages his fond memories of the golden (if sometimes black and white) days of movies with a noirish sensibility. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderYou can ignore the behind-the-scenes technicalities and enjoy the movie on face value: as a moderately entertaining nod to 'Casablanca.' |
| OhmyNews.comBrian OrndorfSoderbergh has been having a helluva time matching his ambition with quality lately |
| About.comJurgen FauthIt's hard to feel for the characters' fate when you're counting the ways in which The Good German rips off Casablanca. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversThis is Soderbergh's show, and a haunting and hypnotic show it is. |
| E! OnlineAlex MarkersonThey don't make 'em like they used to, and The Good German is a very good reason why. |
| Associated PressDavid GermainSoderbergh, screenwriter Paul Attanasio and their colleagues get much of the mood and atmosphere down, but they fail -- or chose not to try -- to emulate the sense of wily playfulness that made old film-noir characters so rich and engaging. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasWith a few self-conscious exceptions, Soderbergh makes an earnest attempt to return to that place and time in both history and American filmmaking, and his risk-taking pays fascinating dividends. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttBlanchett gets everything right -- the accent, her German dialogue, the weary sexuality (deliberately reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich) and the amorality her character has embraced. |
| New York PostLou LumenickWhile Clooney and especially Blanchett give solid performances, and McGuire plays effectively against type, the movie is best appreciated as an exercise in vintage Hollywood style. |
