91
Fehling gives a commanding physical performance as he transitions from ambition to despair to, finally, resolve.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
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.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
The film deftly explores the story's complex moral issues from several sides.
25
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.
70
An intelligent and arresting fact-based drama.
40
The Guardian by Jordan Hoffman
While the topic of mass delusion is fascinating, this film is too unfocused to turn it into compelling drama.
63
It only scratches the surface of the mass psychological wounds and trauma that the trials unleashed on the Germany psyche.
67
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.
50
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Labyrinth of Lies too often feels like machine-stamped issue cinema from a moldy Hollywood playbook.
70
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.