Why you can trust 12DOVE
Based on a bestselling Dutch novel by Tessa de Loo, this Euro-pap tale of two sisters plays like a Danielle Steele sob story. Separated at birth, twins Anna (Nadja Uhl) and Lotte (Thekla Reuten) lose touch. Years pass, Hitler comes to power and when they finally meet again, Anna's a card-carrying Nazi with a hubby in the SS and Lotte's hitched to a Jew earmarked for Buchenwald. Hello irony, goodbye subtlety.
Chocolate-box visuals and a pair of solid performances give this melodrama a pretty sheen, which goes some way to explaining its foreign-flick Oscar nom in 2004. That and an Academy-friendly, reality-averse dip into sickly sentiment that will have you reaching for the hurl pail in the final act.
Showing a dismaying willingness to whitewash Holocaust history and fudging issues of blame and responsibility for Nazi atrocities, Twin Sisters is dismayingly facile.
The Total Film team are made up of the finest minds in all of film journalism. They are: Editor Jane Crowther, Deputy Editor Matt Maytum, Reviews Ed Matthew Leyland, News Editor Jordan Farley, and Online Editor Emily Murray. Expect exclusive news, reviews, features, and more from the team behind the smarter movie magazine.
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone invents new lore after the latest update starts killing chickens: "There is a wild coyote on the farm day 1 rn"
Borderlands 2 player who spent 9 months trying to finish the game without getting hit was beaten to the punch 10 hours before finally accomplishing his goal
PS5 Pro launch lineup is just like a regular console release: overloaded with sports and free-to-play ports, but the secret biggest addition is Xbox's own new Call of Duty