22 Bahnen
Directed by Mia Maariel Meyer · 2025 ·
22 Bahnen (2025) earns a 63% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Audiences (71%) responded more warmly than critics (61%).
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Why this score?
- Celluloid's editorial rating is positive (61/100).
- General viewers mostly liked it (71%).
- Celluloid Score 63% combines 4 verified rating inputs; audience sentiment is shown separately.
Best for
- Short runtime — easy weeknight watch
- Crowd-pleaser seekers — audiences liked it more than critics
Not ideal for
- Viewers who only watch top-tier, 90%+ rated films
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Is 22 Bahnen worth watching?
Yes — 22 Bahnen earns a 63% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.
Celluloid Verdict
Adapted faithfully from Caroline Wahl's bestselling novel, this sister drama earns praise for Luna Wedler and Laura Tonke's performances even as critics find its swimming-pool symbolism and flashback structure a little too tidy for the raw material it's handling.
Celluloid editorial verdict
Audiences (71%) responded more warmly than critics (61%).
What is 22 Bahnen about?
Tilda spends her days finishing a math thesis, working a supermarket checkout, and raising her ten-year-old sister Ida while shielding her from their alcoholic mother. When a professor offers Tilda a promising doctoral position in Berlin, she has to decide whether pursuing her own future means leaving her sister behind. Long laps in the local pool become the one place she can think clearly.
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Critic Reviews
22 Bahnen Review: A Faithful, Familiar Bestseller Adaptation
★★★☆☆
Luna Wedler anchors a sincere but overly tidy adaptation of Caroline Wahl's beloved sisters-and-swimming-pools novel.
Earnest, well-acted, a bit too neat.
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