"Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl is one of the world's best directors of actors, and he nears some kind of a peak in "Rimini," a blisteringly funny and often touching film about people struggling towards happiness despite having experienced lifetimes of disappointment." - Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

“A shiveringly precise slow burn that continues to burrow new tunnels in the mind long after it ends...This is not, in the end, a tale of hubris brought low, or even of a tacky life staring down a long lens at a tawdry, dwindling death. Instead it’s a chilling parable about the sins of the father becoming the punishments of the son, and about the moral arc of the universe bending, across generations, toward the coldest justice imaginable.” - Variety

“There is a kind of brilliance in it. [Rimini] is managed with unflinching conviction, a tremendous compositional sense and an amazing flair for discovering extraordinary locations.” - The Guardian

“Ulrich Seidl’s 'Rimini' is an uncompromising, coldly provocative drama that gathered no prizes, which is a shame. But that its star, Michael Thomas, playing a washed-up club singer in an off-season Italian beach town, was not specifically recognized is more or less a crime.” – The New York Times

“Rimini shows that a director does not have to like his characters. But he has to love them, and then he can tell us anything.” - Die Zeit

“It could be sentimental, this “winter journey” to the graveyard of dreams and desire. It could be a settling of scores, a satire, an exposé. But it never is. We’re in an Ulrich Seidl movie. And at the end we sit silently in our seats.” - WELT Online