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The Lives of Others
Grade: B+

Winner of Best Film honors at the 2006 European Film Awards, this is a bleak and compelling feature debut from writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. In East Berlin in the mid-1980s, a secret service agent finds himself emotionally entangled in the lives of the politically subversive artists he’s spying on. The acting is solid and the suspense builds to a nail-biting climax. The conclusion, alas, is tedious and mushy.