Labyrinth of Lies(Im Labyrinth des Schweigens)

Entertainment Weekly by

Fehling gives a commanding physical performance as he transitions from ambition to despair to, finally, resolve.

Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

It's to the film's credit that truth-telling here looks as hard as it does noble, and that the Holocaust is not treated just as a suspense story's macguffin.

The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

The film deftly explores the story's complex moral issues from several sides.

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

Labyrinth of Lies hits every genre cliché, from the mawkish score to the no-dialogue-montage-of-tragedy. Perhaps inevitably, it’s Germany’s submission for the best foreign film Oscar.

Variety by Joe Leydon

An intelligent and arresting fact-based drama.

The Guardian by Jordan Hoffman

While the topic of mass delusion is fascinating, this film is too unfocused to turn it into compelling drama.

Slant Magazine by Oleg Ivanov

It only scratches the surface of the mass psychological wounds and trauma that the trials unleashed on the Germany psyche.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

At least the film brings up a disturbing piece of history without sensationalizing it. And it does believably portray why so many Germans, with the war at last over and the economy beginning to boom, preferred to forget what many claimed they never knew.

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

Labyrinth of Lies too often feels like machine-stamped issue cinema from a moldy Hollywood playbook.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

It is content to be a chilly, disquieting study of a society in a state of denial until the truth is bared.