A couple years ago, I took a quiz on Facebook to determine who my best relationship match is in regards to taste in movies. Being of considerable movie taste, it’s important that I don’t end up with someone with drastically inferior inclinations toward what is quality cinema. The resulting match: my brother. Thanks, Facebook. In truth, my brother and I do agree on most movies, so when he told me that the Oscar-nominated Austrian film The White Ribbon was not worth seeing, I decided to wait until DVD. Bad move. The White Ribbon is one of the most captivating, intoxicating and fresh films of the last year.

Read FilmJabber’s full The White Ribbon movie review.