Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

What a complete waste of time, and I didn't even finish this alleged film. Lingering shots of nothing, scenes so dark you can't tell what is happening and the camera follows some characters for no apparent reason. The story itself is poorly portrayed, while being poorly acted as well. The viewer not only does not develop an understanding of the individuals in the film, you really don't care, because the actors themselves don't seem to care.The director may have been attempting a Kubrick or Lynch approach to filming, but if so, it was an abject failure.

I give a 5 because the aforementioned good points: soundtrack, acting, photography. Unfortunately the message of the film is twisted, confused and quite wrong. As if dictatorships and fascism existed because of neglected children. Come on. Where is history? Historical context is only an almost meaningless background, totally absent from the chore of the story and cause of events. It's been replaced by Freudian childhood traumas. The connection between the unhappy childhood, unempathic mother, absent father and the soviet- like uniforms in the end is totally arbitrary, as if fascism and socialism were the same. Could have been a good film if only the writers had studied some history and were a bit cultured. This film is a cheap and pretentious try to make a meaningful work. For ignorant people who like to think highly of themselves.

2.5 of 10. Rounded down instead of up. Given that there's a desperate need for more documentaries or even portrayals of fascism as it happened historically, the 1 remarkable thing about this film is that it completely fails to capture any unique element of fascism or fascists.As a film on the spoiled brats of leaders in general, it's not bad. Not original and not insightful either. It's more like the writer and director threw a tantrum together.It's not the worst possible rating essentially because the acting and music are entertaining enough to keep the film from causing your head from bouncing off the floor, but that's about it.

A flawed but very promising directorial debut from Brady Corbet. The plot meanders a little, promising more than it ultimately manages to deliver. There are, though, plenty of great moments as the film unfolds and the increasingly oppressive atmosphere of isolation, alienation and menace intensifies. Scott Walker's soundtrack is gloriously weird and over the top, and is used to particularly powerful effect in the set piece sequences that open and close the film. The acting is uniformly excellent. Tom Sweet delivers a fine performance as The Boy, whose increasingly violent tantrums are a sign of grim things to come. This is an intelligent and subtle film. A very good debut, which falls just short of being great.