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Fratricide
Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    The film's opening dedication to Pasolini acknowledges Arslan's debt to Neorealism, but the gritty, documentary style is offset by a charming bit of chalkboard animation that helps lighten the mood considerably.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Bennett
    80
    Fierce and tragic tale of lost hope.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    80
    Fratricide marks Arslan as one of Europe's hottest young talents, drawing simultaneously on the film traditions of America, Western Europe and the Middle East.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    75
    Nonprofessional actors and convincingly dingy details give Fratricide a harsh documentary quality, and its "Midnight Cowboy"-style ending is bitterly powerful. Devotees of seamy '70s cinema should give this little film a look.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    75
    Shot with such grit that the lenses seem coated with grease, Fratricide offers a myopic impression of an unnamed German city, and that's probably the point, since so much of its territory and opportunities are sealed off from these immigrant characters.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Halter
    70
    A well-wrought, beautifully lensed but ultimately hopeless tale, Fratricide provides a less than optimistic allegory for the intractability of human conflicts: Even far away and decades later, old wars bring fresh miseries.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jay Weissberg
    70
    A hard-hitting, ultimately tragic tale of the struggle for identity among Kurdish emigres in urban Germany.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    63
    While the boys' fates do seem a little too predestined, that may well be Arslan's intention. When you're idling in no man's land, it's all too easy to get uprooted.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    40
    Every so often, Mr. Arslan cuts to Kurdistan, where a group of women wander the barren landscape, a Greek chorus gone astray in a film gone amiss.
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