Film Threat by Anthony Ray Bench

A film called My Wonderful Wanda needed more exploration of the title character.

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

Death and new life, cultural prejudices and that Swiss obsession with money play into a film that is Germanic in its darkness, as subtle as a wet slap and funny? Eventually.

Variety by Alissa Simon

It’s an engaging, mostly well-acted tale, full of surprising twists, even if some seem a bit too on the nose.

CineVue by Matthew Anderson

Behind the closed doors of this lakeside paradise it is clear that there’s trouble afoot.

Washington Post by Ann Hornaday

An engrossing but uneven comedy-drama.

The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

Bettina Oberli is more interested in the interplay of her characters than a barbed look at geopolitics, an approach that clicks only to a point in this well-performed but overlong and uneven feature.

The New York Times by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

The film, written by Oberli and Cooky Ziesche, satirizes class divides and xenophobia (“the Pole” constantly carries a derogatory connotation here), but never takes the satire far enough to be memorable, challenging or anything beyond whimsical.

Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

Oberli and Ziesche, who’ve divided the story into three chapters plus an epilogue (the less said about the plot the better to protect a few solid twists), attempt to lay bare the thorny issue of outsourcing care work to migrants but don’t layer in enough heft or context to make a wholly satisfying statement.