BAD JUDGMENT The case can be made that Kruger gave the most intricate and affecting performance of the past year. A couple of injustices have nagged at me since re-watching this emotionally wrenching ...

Poignant and complex if occasionally frustrating, Fatih Akin’s In the Fade is the story of a marriage. Not a conventional one, as the director announces with a prologue in which white-suited Nuri ...

Diane Kruger’s beautifully modulated performance as a woman seeking justice following the neo-Nazi murder of her husband and son anchors this skilled though familiar drama. For good or bad, Akin has ...

The German thriller “In the Fade” puts us face to face with loss, and with what happens when a world shatters, leaving only darkness in its wake. Katja (Diane Kruger) lives contentedly with her ...

Few filmmakers have tackled terrorism with anything beyond a standard procedural account. However, writer/director Fatih Akin (German-born and of Turkish descent) has regularly grappled with the topic ...

“In the Fade” does not tell a happy story, not even close. But it is a powerful film, one of the nine shortlisted for the foreign-language Oscar, and it is elevated by Diane Kruger’s superb ...

Fatih Akin's revenge drama, starring Diane Kruger, won the Golden Globe and Critics' Choice awards but failed to make the final list of nominees for best foreign-language film. By Scott Roxborough ...

“In the Fade” is a tragedy in three acts, their varying tone and effectiveness held together, however tenuously, by a powerhouse performance. That comes courtesy of Diane Kruger, who plays Katja ...

“In the Fade” does not tell a happy story, not even close. But it is a powerful film, one of the nine shortlisted for the foreign-language Oscar, and it is elevated by Diane Kruger’s superb ...