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Universal acclaim- based on 29 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 32
  2. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. I don't claim to have seen every entry from around the world, but it's hard to imagine five better than this deliciously offbeat comedy, as wildly inventive as anything Billy Wilder ever conceived.
  2. Funny but not a comedy, serious but never overbearing, emotional in an engaging and bittersweet way, Good Bye, Lenin! is a wonderful film unto itself about a world unto itself.
  3. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    Marvelously entertaining, and occasionally brilliant, political satire.
  4. 60
    Overlong and a bit tiresome but it's actually about something.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. DidierR.
    10
    Awesome!! I loved this film...OST with Yann Tiersen.... GREAT.
  2. NickJ.
    8
    This is an immensely complex tale of truth and perspective set in East Berlin after the fall of the wall. Some people will always call this a comedy, but that is because they failed to scrape off the cream and discover the rich undergrowth of complexity in this extremely thought provoking film. Collapse
  3. AdamL.
    3
    Headache inducing. It's as if the filmmakers couldn't decide whether this should be a political drama, a period piece, or a comedy, and so tried to mash all three together in the most jarring fashion imaginable. It just doesn't work. Expand

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