Synopsis: Who knows what American journalist Jake Geismer (George Clooney) expected to find in postwar Berlin? Peace, maybe. Or at least a story. But certainly not Lena (Cate Blanchett), his beautiful, embittered one-time love. And not the trail of secrecy and deception that leads from Lena to the scheming young corporal (Tobey Maguire) who’s her new lover…and to a murder no one seems interested in solving. Except Jake.

Steven Soderbergh directs three of today’s top talents in this zigzag thriller that’s both an atmospheric homage to 1940s filmmaking and a deft modern film noir. The Good German is “haunting and hypnotic, it’s pure moviegoing bliss” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).
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The Good German 8.0

Soderbergh’s ode to ’40s war intrigues. If only he had gone as far as to shoot on the same film stock and making the footage copy movies of that period (he did do everything else, such as lighting, angles, …etc. however). Otherwise, very good. And Cate Blanchett is a standout here.