Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)

A cop-on-the-edge turns out to be more interesting for his marriage than as a romantic loner — another smashing two-star movie from Down Under.

An exercise in political incorrectness that is made palatable, so at least one may hope, to a strongly liberal and politically correct audience

Fine performances by its two principal actors are not enough in the end to make this movie very interesting

The latest Coen brothers film is a remake of a 1955 classic that seems not to notice that the entire moral context of the original has vanished

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Though disappointing in the end, this is an engaging first feature based on a Raymond Carver story and offers a meaty role for Will Ferrell