Amrum

...a subtly touching film that never begs to be called tender.

...a humble monument to the capacity for generational change.

Fatih Akin’s visually beautiful wartime drama, Amrum, turns a child’s survival into a memory handed from one talented filmmaker to another.

As Amrum ends, you realize why Nanning is crafted in such an intricate and personal way.

...feels in conversation with, of all things, Taika Waititi’s “JoJo Rabbit“; both are coming-of-age stories about little Nazi boys in the waning days of the Reich...