Requiem 2006

Critics score:
88 / 100

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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The confusion and panic and everyday interactions in Requiem feel honest and true-to-life, which has nothing to do with how factual it is, or isn't. Read more

Martin Rubin, Chicago Reader: The nonsensationalistic results are also somewhat ho-hum -- and oddly less convincing than Friedkin's lurid mess, let alone the elegant satanism sagas of Tourneur and Polanski. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Requiem isn't a horror movie so much as a thwarted coming-of-age story, like Carrie without the bloody reckoning. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Working from an economical and intelligent script by Bernd Lange , Schmid directs his first feature with the easy conviction that eluded the makers of the preposterous Emily Rose. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: In lesser hands, Requiem would seem merely bleak, but Schmid makes a rigorously urgent and compelling film out of Michaela's odyssey. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [Sandra Huller's] intensity is so compelling you truly have no idea if those demons are real. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Just as haunting as a horror film and far more heartrending. Read more

Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: Stage actress Sandra Huller delivers a stunning, understated performance... Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Quietly devastating and unbearably moving, this is a soul-searching classic. Read more

Jim Ridley, Village Voice: This quietly unnerving psychological study from German director Hans-Christian Schmid wields its ambiguity about religion and science like a double-edged blade. Read more

Eddie Cockrell, Variety: [A] stunningly played story of faith vs. family. Read more