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Few films are gripping and effective 82 years after their original release, but this one surely is.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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This is a movie that dares to sympathize with a sick person, that risks making the monster real and us (in an era when Germany's cinema was still shellacked in canted angles and fanciful shadows).
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
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The moral issues are complex and deftly handled: Lorre is at once entirely innocent and absolutely evil. Lang's detached, modified expressionist style gives the action a plastic beauty.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
An extraordinary, good, impressive and strong talker. Again fine work by Fritz Lang, and his wife and helper, Thea von Harbou.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A subversive film, or more simply a movie brimming over with the ferment of Lang's imagination at its height? You choose.
Derek Adams, Time Out
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