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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "The film plays well, and is involving, but in one form or another, this is a story often told." (Read the full review...) 598 words, 01/20/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a moral inquiry into the relationship of the individual to the group in oppressive institutional circumstances.... Its refusal to adopt a single point of view may be conceptually ambitious, but it keeps the drama unfocussed, and slightly off balance." (Read the full review...) 640 words, 11/18/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Moody atmospherics enhance the conventional structure, and Marius Holst's solid storytelling balances the heavy-handed symbolism. Skarsgård is excellent as always, but it's really Helstad who grounds this unsettling tale." (Read the full review...) 174 words, 11/18/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...reform school movie tropes of a hundred predecessors are unfortunately allowed to take over.... There's still plenty to be gripped by, however, in director Marius Holst's austere and occasionally stirring yarn." (Read the full review...) 242 words, 02/03/12 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has many of the conventions of movies about sadistic prisons -- sexual abuse, suicide and unsuccessful escapes. But director Marius Holst gives the proceedings a fresh look, thanks to sturdy acting, direction and cinematography." (Read the full review...) 205 words, 11/18/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "The film plays well, and is involving, but in one form or another, this is a story often told." (Read the full review...) 598 words, 01/20/12 Michael Atkinson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...in its muster of pungent period flavor, the film follows the resonant 'Cool Hand Luke'/'Cuckoo's Nest' formula pretty closely until the prison uprising (which this microgenre often avoids) blows up stirringly..." (Read the full review...) 199 words, 11/16/11 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...reminds us yet again of how little penal systems have ever been about reform and perhaps how little has changed in nearly a century." (Read the full review...) 323 words, 03/16/12 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...conventional but well-made..." (Read the full review...) 613 words, 03/16/12 Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Apart from the wintry conditions, there's nothing particularly new about this competent but inelegant prison drama, at least not to an audience familiar with Jules Dassin's 'Brute Force' or 'The Shawshank Redemption.' " (Read the full review...) 212 words, 03/15/12
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Recent Scandinavian films, culminating in the 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' series, have been steadily carving out a gloomy cinematic niche, opening up worlds of festering ugliness and rancid history beneath the polite facade of modern society. Add 'King of Devil's Island' to that list." (Read the full review...) 456 words, 12/16/11 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...surprisingly effective, and affecting, given the familiarity of its material.... Director Marius Holst employs old-school means - thick atmospherics, ripe acting and a straightforward narrative arc." (Read the full review...) 209 words, 01/06/12
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...in its muster of pungent period flavor, the film follows the resonant 'Cool Hand Luke'/'Cuckoo's Nest' formula pretty closely until the prison uprising (which this microgenre often avoids) blows up stirringly..." (Read the full review...) 199 words, 11/16/11 Glenn Heath Jr., Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...hits the familiar plot points most prison films cherish (escape attempts, riots, chase sequences), but Marius Hoist's keen directing abilities prove that worn-out film genres can be advanced with the right casting and setting." (Read the full review...) 613 words, 11/14/11 Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Apart from the wintry conditions, there's nothing particularly new about this competent but inelegant prison drama, at least not to an audience familiar with Jules Dassin's 'Brute Force' or 'The Shawshank Redemption.' " (Read the full review...) 212 words, 03/15/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a moral inquiry into the relationship of the individual to the group in oppressive institutional circumstances.... Its refusal to adopt a single point of view may be conceptually ambitious, but it keeps the drama unfocussed, and slightly off balance." (Read the full review...) 640 words, 11/18/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...reform school movie tropes of a hundred predecessors are unfortunately allowed to take over.... There's still plenty to be gripped by, however, in director Marius Holst's austere and occasionally stirring yarn." (Read the full review...) 242 words, 02/03/12
Alissa Simon, Daily Variety: GOOD "An account of one of two times in history when the Norwegian Army fired on its fellow countrymen... turns the story of a 1915 uprising at a brutally run boys' reform school into old-fashioned epic drama. Watchable if not entirely engrossing..." (Read the full review...) 648 words, 02/10/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...reform school movie tropes of a hundred predecessors are unfortunately allowed to take over.... There's still plenty to be gripped by, however, in director Marius Holst's austere and occasionally stirring yarn." (Read the full review...) 242 words, 02/03/12 Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a moral inquiry into the relationship of the individual to the group in oppressive institutional circumstances.... Its refusal to adopt a single point of view may be conceptually ambitious, but it keeps the drama unfocussed, and slightly off balance." (Read the full review...) 640 words, 11/18/11
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