Lang’s film remains an urgent and engaging experience that still feels vibrantly made and acted—the product of a specific place and time in history, of course, but also vital, exciting, and timeless.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 13, 2025

A genuine masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 17, 2024

One of the most chilling films ever.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2023

Exceptional performances, packed with social commentary, M is a nail-biting thriller that is brought to life through its expert direction and techniques. A prime example of a must-see classic masterwork that is ahead of its time.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2022

Not only is the film brilliantly directed, with a vast amount of that inspired type-casting at which the Germans are so good, but Peter Lorre acts the part of the insane murderer with great insight and inspired skill.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2022

Lang's film, although deeply unpleasant, is one that deserves to be seen and talked about. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | May 14, 2021

There are many strong performances in the film but it is Peter Lorre's movie.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2021

Technically, It is presented with the objective conviction of a news reel. It is a horrible and as convincing as if a cameraman had been witness to the Leopold and Loeb murder, for example. The story moves with breath-taking, ominous suspense.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2020

Famously, Lang uses lights and shadows to designate a film noir atmosphere to pair with his German Expressionism topics.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 27, 2020

[This] is a film that hasn't aged a day, and that is actually more innovative than most films currently playing.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2020

Beautifully constructed, mounting from climax to climax with terrific suspense. Flawless performances, and social meaning.

Full Review | Apr 21, 2020

When portraying this world of beggars, Lang makes a sequence that would leave Orson Welles himself open-mouthed. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Apr 17, 2020

Be afraid. Be properly afraid. The greatest creation of Fritz Lang's career remains one of the most disturbing movies of his, or any, film-making era.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 30, 2019

A beautifully balanced melodrama, well worth space in any language.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2019

Lang's movie is that rare thing, a nail-biting soul-searcher. While M steers clear of analyzing deviance, it is startling in its musings on which punishment fits an inhuman crime.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 2, 2016

Our identification with [Lorre] as a psychopath is so complete it's hard to believe that while appearing before Fritz Lang's cameras in the daytime, he was, at night, acting as a comedian in a farce.

Full Review | Apr 7, 2016

[VIDEO ESSAY] A precursor to the serial killer and policier genres, "M" is first and foremost a suspense thriller made all the more gripping because the identity of the killer is revealed in the first act.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Mar 11, 2015

Lang's razor-sharp dissection of crime and punishment never puts a foot wrong.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 7, 2014

It is a cousin to the early Hitchcock of The Lodger, and I have always found something even something faintly Ealingesque about its cynicism and satire.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 4, 2014

You'll never look at a novelty balloon in the same way again.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 4, 2014