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72 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Julia Wallace
    80
    This is Iron Curtain porn at its most shameless--a rousing industrial rock song plays in the background every time Schlöndorff wants to invoke the Spirit of Labor--but Thalbach's Agnieszka is irresistible.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Crust
    80
    Despite the grim Cold War environment, Schlöndorff blends, mostly successfully, goofiness and melodrama into the overall social realist tone.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    80
    Schlöndorff calls the film "a ballad inspired by true events," and its occasional bouts of clumsiness and sentimentality are inseparable from its power.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    75
    The dubbing from German to Polish is off-putting, but it is Schlondorff's best film since his classic "The Tin Drum."
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    Thalbach's passionate performance is the film's center, but she's aided by a strong supporting cast, Jarre's propulsive score and the gritty locations: It was shot at the very shipyard where real-life history was made.
  6. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    If Thalbach's fiery performance is the heart of Strike, her costar is the vast and impressive Gdansk shipyard itself.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    70
    Continuing the late-career renaissance of historically urgent, politically engaged fiction filmmaking that began with 1999's "The Legend of Rita" and 2004's "The Ninth Day" German vet Volker Schloendorff stumbles slightly, but doesn't fall, with Poland-set Solidarity saga Strike.
  8. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    67
    It's all a lot closer to melodrama than drama, but Thalbach is a dynamo.
  9. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    63
    The script plays fast and loose with the facts and adds soap-operaish touches, but Thalbach is a feisty delight.
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