The Young Karl Marx's reviews
Media reviews
Screen Daily
A spry romp through the seven years leading up to the drafting of the Communist Manifesto, Raoul Peck?s biopic of Karl Marx?s early years feels like a mix between a prestige BBC drama and a Marx For Dummies primer.
The Guardian
It shouldn?t work, but it does, due to the intelligence of the acting and the stamina and concentration of the writing and directing.
The Hollywood Reporter
An intellectually rigorous but stylistically staid peep at the 20-something author of Capital and The Communist Manifesto, Raoul Peck?s The Young Karl Marx is at once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment.
Variety
It?s dutiful, but it?s also superficial and polite, and it commits the genteel sin of the old biopics: It turns its hero into a plaster saint.
Indiewire
This immaculately furnished film sacrifices too much drama in order to expound upon its characters? ideals, and sacrifices too much exploration of those ideals in order to accommodate for a healthy degree of drama.