78
Metascore
15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThis is a masterpiece of serious cinema; long, slow and grave as the grave.
- 90VarietyLeslie FelperinVarietyLeslie FelperinIn the Fog explores the moralities of wartime with restraint and exacting execution.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIn the Fog is an intense, slow-burning and haunting drama.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe film repays patient viewing as it evolves into an engrossing, nuanced, philosophical drama.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonIt's a stark vision of humanity in a hellish world. Tough and thought-provoking.
- 80Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonIn the Fog has the inevitability of an avalanche, and only our overfamilarity with Nazi-tribulation scenarios, and perhaps its excessively punctuated ending, could slow it down. A better anti-summer blockbuster is hard to imagine.
- 60Time Out LondonTime Out LondonThis philosophical war film is impressive and thought provoking but it’s also too restrained and pensive to ever completely connect.
- 60Total FilmTotal FilmThe film strips away ideas of heroism mercilessly.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichLoznitsa would have done better to embrace the story’s enigmas as opposed to explicate them.