Toni Erdmann Release Date

Three hours of very funny, very German comedic joy.

Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) is a divorced piano teacher with a passion for practical jokes. Grieving the death of his pet dog, he travels to Bucharest to reconnect with...

A father, a daughter and the father’s alter ego figure in Maren Ade’s German-language comedy, which is outlandishly funny and improbably moving.

It has found a considerable, gratefully discombobulated audience all around the world, and it deserves one here.

Toni Erdmann, proceeding in a perfectly straightforward manner, from one awkward, heartfelt, hilarious scene to the next, wraps itself around some of the thorniest complexities ...

With a perfect balance of heart and humor, Toni Erdmann transcends its clichéd premise, becoming one of the most tragic comedies of the decade so far.

Father and daughter reconnect during a bizarre, surreal adventure.

Maren Ade’s third feature film as a director unravels the knots that tie together Peter Simonischek's prankster father and Sandra Huller as his careerwoman daughter.

Maren Ade's unique study of an estranged but mutually depressive father and daughter is a humane, hilarious triumph.

Delving into microeconomics and macroaggressions, Toni Erdmann, the dynamite, superbly acted third feature from writer-director Maren Ade, is social studies at its finest. This ...

There are a fair number of well-regarded films about the link between a father and a young daughter: “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Paper Moon,” “My Girl,...

And yet the film is nevertheless a masterpiece, as the sheer breadth and extent of its emotional impact more than compensate for these weaknesses. In the end, even diamonds have...

Toni Erdmann is the 3-hour, achingly sad prankster comedy of the year.

Marin Ade’s brilliant comedy explores family connections and generational divides.

This film, despite unshowy photography and a dialed-down style, is so singular, and so uniquely Ade’s that it heralds her confirmation as one such.

To say Toni Erdmann is funny doesn’t even begin to capture the out-there texture of the jokes, and of the actors’ timing.

Toni Erdmann, it turns out, is Hüller’s movie all the way, with her character not just matching wits with the bumptious, often irritating father, but ultimately coming into her ...

German movie about white-collar executive and her anarchic dad hits the foreign-film sweet spot.

By its end, Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann is a work of laser-guided social critique and a comedy.

With its nearly three-hour running time and Bizarro World parent-child bonding themes, it feels impossible to describe just how thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying Toni Erdmann ...

A leftfield Palme contender emerges in this insightful and sometimes very funny film about a prank-prone dad trying to lighten up his serious businesswoman daughter.