Zwei Leben 2012

Kyle Smith, New York Post: For an issue movie "Two Lives" is something of a nail-biter. Read more

Ella Taylor, NPR: Two Lives unfolds in a slow boil of rage at the government that allowed all this emotional destruction. But Maas treats Katrine with compassion, as a victim of forces more damaging than her own ravenous hunger for love and family. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This sober look into how war, peace and politics splintered lives is circuitous, but worth puzzling out. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: "Two Lives" is an absorbing, well-acted, moderately suspenseful mystery, although its time line of events is fuzzy to the point of impenetrability. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The personal drama is "I can't tell any more lies!" obvious, the international intrigue is lukewarm, and the big payoff, which should be a shocker, is so poorly staged as to be laughable. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Seven decades later, the creative well has somehow not yet run dry on the ripple effects of Nazi Germany's offenses, though writer-director Georg Maas's slick and sulky second feature is not another dime-a-dozen Holocaust tragedy. Read more