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Review: War is hell (again) in Netflix's new adaptation of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

"All Quiet on the Western Front," directed by Edward Berger, is hardly the first movie to argue — quite persuasively — that war is hell. It is, however, the first filmed adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's seminal World War I novel in which the Germans actually speak German. The book's…

Los Angeles Times · Oct 28, 2022

Daniel Brühl: ‘We Germans know better than anyone – there are no winners in war’

For a new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, the actor faced a dual responsibility – to portray a forgotten German hero, and deliver a warning from history

The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2022

Movie review: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ a searing indictment of war

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” a 1928 World War I novel by war veteran Erich Maria Remarque, was banned and burned in Nazi Germany. When the Academy Award-winning 1930 film version from Universal Pictures opened in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels himself entered the theater and started a riot. In 1979,…

Boston Herald · Oct 17, 2022