The Good German movie posterAmidst the horror of the fall of the Third Reich, the chaos of the Potsdam conference and the beginnings of the Russo-American Cold War, reporter Jacob Geismar returns to an devastated Berlin, instantly embroiled in politics, war crimes and murder.

Steven Soderberg's stylish but empty black and white film noir falls at times between homage, pastiche and plain clumsiness, saved only by George Clooney's presence. Read more of this post