Taking Sides
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61 out of 100

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5.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwängler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the controversial Nazi era.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 26
  3. Negative: 2 out of 26
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    91
    After a somewhat shaky start, the film gradually settles in to become another extraordinarily powerful and explosively acted drama that deftly probes the moral responsibility of an artist in a totalitarian society.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    In compelling, suspenseful fashion, Taking Sides illuminates brilliantly the dilemma of a great, world-renowned artist flourishing in a totalitarian regime.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    60
    Powerful, personal, but bombastic.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    The notions of the good man's complicity through inertia and of innocence tarnished by association are ones that have been more powerfully explored before.

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