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The Lives of Others   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   The Critics: A- 9 reviews Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: B+ 3476 ratings  User Reviews (156 reviews) Write your own review Sort by:  Most HelpfulMost RecentHighest GradeLowest Grade Previous   |  1-10 of 156  |   Next   Overall Grade: A+ Story: A+ Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: B+ Chillingly real and honest by Roxana (movies profile) (Jun 13, 2008) 97 of 98 people found this review helpful Being born in one of the East Europe communist countries, I was curious to see a movie about the secret service political spying and meddling into the lives of ordinary c... Full Review Overall Grade: B Story: A- Acting: B- Direction: B+ Visuals: C+ Well done by Antonio (movies profile) (Mar 7, 2008) 45 of 60 people found this review helpful Good story. Over two hours long. First hour was SLOW. Second half was WAY BETTER. The last 10 minutes are fantastic! The final scene is electrifying! I do recommend... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A+ Acting: A+ Direction: A+ Visuals: A+ 'Others' thrills on many levels by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile) (Jun 13, 2008) 44 of 58 people found this review helpful The Lives of Others is a miracle of a film that manages to be both subtle and intense at the same time.Whats even more astounding is that this is the feature debut from G... Full Review Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: N/A Very Real, but too soft by del (movies profile) (Jun 13, 2008) 13 of 13 people found this review helpful This is how it was, just a few years ago. A higher level civilized mental torture, without direct killing. The movie focused on the human aspects. The actual torture cell... Full Review Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: B Huge Payoff and a beautiful film by Perldog (movies profile) (Jun 13, 2008) 9 of 10 people found this review helpful This is an outstanding movie. It's one of the best I have seen in recent years. The Oscar it earned for Best Foreign Film was well earned, but it should have won Best F... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A+ Acting: A+ Direction: A+ Visuals: A+ when citzens are forced to spy on each other by Eye (movies profile) (Mar 7, 2008) 6 of 7 people found this review helpful I recommend the movie (the lives of others) the underlining themes of repression, cowardice anxiety and alienation are not unique to the Stasi, they ruined the lives of m... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A+ Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: A The Last Half of the 20th Century by Nelson (movies profile) (Jun 13, 2008) 5 of 5 people found this review helpful "Babel" was drivel, "The Departed" pales by comparison. This was one of he best movies I have ever seen! A great AND significant story. Told with wonderful restraint and... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A+ Acting: A+ Direction: A+ Visuals: A+ A German Mastepiece by ronhaha108 (movies profile) (Jun 13, 2008) 5 of 5 people found this review helpful This is the kind of movie that comes out once every decade. The story, the acting and the character development reminds me of a true genius -- Tolstoy. After watching t... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: B Acting: A- Direction: A Visuals: A- Story by valica (movies profile) (Mar 7, 2008) 6 of 8 people found this review helpful I read all the reviews. In almost all appears the word "story". Story ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! It was as real as Apollo 13. The german style of movie is a precise one, non dram... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A+ Acting: A+ Direction: A+ Visuals: A+ Very Good by Ryan (movies profile) (Jun 13, 2008) 4 of 4 people found this review helpful I was very impressed with this movie. The acting was superb. The movie makes you feel the emotions of the people that lived in East Berlin. It gives a true look at how... Full Review Previous   |  1-10 of 156  |   Next