Critic Reviews

• Tom Huddleston, Time Out

  Although it may lack a raw, confident force to make it truly special, 'Dead Europe' completely nails its devastating, unexpected ending.

• Megan Lehmann, Hollywood Reporter

  In the end mood is all, and it's a bummer.

• Russell Edwards, Variety

  Like the Eurozone itself, helmer Tony Krawitz's first full-length fiction feature "Dead Europe" struggles to cohere into a convincing whole, despite sections of commanding authority.

• Rich Cline, Contactmusic.com

  Even if the plot takes too long to come together, this film has a darkly foreboding tone that's thoroughly mesmerising, drawing us into its mysteries while touching on issues of race, religion and sexuality.

• Emma Simmonds, The List

  Stunning and moodily atmospheric but dramatically sketchy, Dead Europe gives a mere snapshot of a continent falling to pieces and ultimately fails to bring its intriguing personal story to life.

• Joe Walsh, Little White Lies

  Macabre, spiteful and all too bleak in its juxtaposition of generations and their transference of guilt.

• Mike McCahill, Guardian [UK]

  Director Tony Krawitz pulls off several unsettling moodshifts, and takes extremely seriously the old-world traditions and superstitions a gorefest like Hostel could only sneer and snigger at.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  A promising drama of alienation that slides into portentousness.

• Matt Glasby, Total Film

  It's intriguing and pretentious in equal measure, capturing the feeling of being adrift in a foreign world, but then failing to capitalise on it.

• Jim Schembri, 3AW

  Mordant, depressing dirge of a film.

• Julie Rigg, MovieTime, ABC Radio National

  It is one of the most disturbing, and intelligent, Australian films for a long time.

• Peter Galvin, sbs.com.au

  Dark, and emotionally claustrophobic, Dead Europe is tough to sit through. Talky and severe, it is a puzzle film, a movie where one is asked to work hard at deciphering its strangeness.

• David Stratton, At the Movies (Australia)

  The powerful scenes are wonderful, I think. There's some tremendous scenes.

• Margaret Pomeranz, At the Movies (Australia)

  I was confronted, fascinated, and ultimately only slightly frustrated.

• Jake Wilson, The Age (Australia)

  The film might have felt truer to its source if it were either pulpier or more avant-garde.

• Colin Fraser, FILMINK (Australia)

  The result is a bleak, atmospheric and utterly seductive thriller that doesn't offer up its secrets readily.

• Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

  Dense and intense, Dead Europe is cinematically alive, with director Tony Krawitz sure of his footing as he takes us in close to his characters, prying, probing, pricking ... and involving us at a deep emotional level

• Blake Howard, 2UE That Movie Show

  DEAD EUROPE mesmerised me. It was rich, engaging and the right blend of superstition and mystery to keep you guessing.

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