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Michael
Directed by
Markus Schleinzer
Not Rated
2011
1h 36m
Drama
,
Thriller
6.9
80%
67%
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Five months in the life of a pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.
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Cast of Michael
Michael Fuith
Michael
David Rauchenberger
Wolfgang
Christine Kain
Mother
Ursula Strauss
Sister
Victor Tremmel
Brother in law
Xaver Winkler
Nephew 1
Thomas Pfalzmann
Nephew 2
Markus Hochholdinger
Kollege Kantine
Mika Sakurai
Tochter
David Oberkogler
Mag. Ehrnsberger
Michael Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Scott Tobias
It's a chilling film about the routine business of unspeakable acts.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
A strange and agonizingly engrossing drama despite its repellent subject.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
This coldly compelling film doesn't try to explain Michael's behavior or analyze his disease. As if doing penance for Michael's sins, it eventually metes out unequivocal punishment, but it is small consolation.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
A hermetically sealed creep-fest that seems to have no desire to be anything more than just that.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
A well-acted, otherwise tightly scripted movie that builds suspense with a series of unexpected twists and turns.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Markus Schleinzer turns the film's victim into little more than a kicking, screaming cipher whose sufferings, while not exploited, are nonetheless diminished to the stuff of clinical observation.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Another full unfaltering performance by a child. This time it's in a horror film.
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Chang
Objective, analytic, clinical, dispassionate-these are not words often used to describe something so engrossing and gripping.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
What interests Schleinzer is putting us inside Michael's head, even though we're repelled by his activities, and his no-frills approach works.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Like its protagonist, Michael is deliberate and very discreet. It shocks by suggestion, not by display.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
Schleinzer approaches his subject not as an investigator, but as though covering up a crime scene and scrubbing it of anything that might provide insight or empathy or psychological traction.
Variety
Alissa Simon
Illustrating the banality of evil in an impressively controlled and sometimes darkly humorous fashion, Michael takes a coolly nonjudgmental, non-psychological approach to a disturbing topic.
Times-Picayune
Mike Scott
Intentionally unnerving from the first moments, it's a hard movie to watch, but it's also fantastically, agonizingly suspenseful.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
The Banality of Evil gets full cinematic treatment in this skillfully made but unpleasant film.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
A courageous essay on the power of the childlike and the horror of dysfunctional adulthood.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
convincing as a character study to the point of disconcertment
Cinema Autopsy
Thomas Caldwell
The film was so expertly constructed that I found myself drawn into it and fascinated by what I saw.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Haneke without the soul, and if you've seen enough of that man's pictures, you can maybe perceive how unsettling the idea of a soulless Haneke sounds.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
A fly-on-the-wall study of the behavior of a pedophile, "Michael" is a horror movie made up small moments.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Michael Nordine
We never get too close to Michael, but one suspects this may be a good thing.
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