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"[A] satisfyingly complex, thrilling and distinctive crowd-pleaser."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "Crucially, the hurtling action rarely falters and never undermines the characters. And, as screenwriters will tell you, that's the holy grail."Total Film "HEADHUNTERS is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities."Los Angeles Times "A transgenre thriller that glides effortlessly from crisp social commentary through off-kilter comedy to paranoid terror....[One] of the most enjoyable movies in recent memory."Wall Street Journal "This Norwegian thriller has a winning cutthroat perversity....Hennie's slightly freakish pop-eyed charm makes him perfect as a born liar..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "Morten Tyldum delivers a Norwegian thrill ride that surpasses any produced by Hollywood in recent memory....Plot twists come fast and furious, delivered with a particular Scandinavian drollness..."Film Comment 3 stars out of 4 -- ""[With] playful music and clever camerawork...the result is a cat-and-mouse game with the giddy excitement of a heist movie."Washington Post 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The director, Morten Tyldum, has a gift for visual shocks and reveals. Everything can change in a single edit."Chicago Sun-Times29.1053

"[A] satisfyingly complex, thrilling and distinctive crowd-pleaser."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "Crucially, the hurtling action rarely falters and never undermines the characters. And, as screenwriters will tell you, that's the holy grail."Total Film "HEADHUNTERS is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities."Los Angeles Times "A transgenre thriller that glides effortlessly from crisp social commentary through off-kilter comedy to paranoid terror....[One] of the most enjoyable movies in recent memory."Wall Street Journal "This Norwegian thriller has a winning cutthroat perversity....Hennie's slightly freakish pop-eyed charm makes him perfect as a born liar..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "Morten Tyldum delivers a Norwegian thrill ride that surpasses any produced by Hollywood in recent memory....Plot twists come fast and furious, delivered with a particular Scandinavian drollness..."Film Comment 3 stars out of 4 -- ""[With] playful music and clever camerawork...the result is a cat-and-mouse game with the giddy excitement of a heist movie."Washington Post 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The director, Morten Tyldum, has a gift for visual shocks and reveals. Everything can change in a single edit."Chicago Sun-Times "HEADHUNTERS has the stylish look of a high-end Hollywood thriller..."Uncut29.1053

"[A] satisfyingly complex, thrilling and distinctive crowd-pleaser."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "Crucially, the hurtling action rarely falters and never undermines the characters. And, as screenwriters will tell you, that's the holy grail."Total Film "HEADHUNTERS is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities."Los Angeles Times "A transgenre thriller that glides effortlessly from crisp social commentary through off-kilter comedy to paranoid terror....[One] of the most enjoyable movies in recent memory."Wall Street Journal "This Norwegian thriller has a winning cutthroat perversity....Hennie's slightly freakish pop-eyed charm makes him perfect as a born liar..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "Morten Tyldum delivers a Norwegian thrill ride that surpasses any produced by Hollywood in recent memory....Plot twists come fast and furious, delivered with a particular Scandinavian drollness..."Film Comment 3 stars out of 4 -- ""[With] playful music and clever camerawork...the result is a cat-and-mouse game with the giddy excitement of a heist movie."Washington Post 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The director, Morten Tyldum, has a gift for visual shocks and reveals. Everything can change in a single edit."Chicago Sun-Times29.1053

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3 stars out of 5 -- "Anders Danielsen Lie gives a compelling, deep-etched lead turn, and you'll find yourself drawn in as he searches for a reason to continue living."Total Film "[Told] with extraordinary delicacy and acuity....A film which repeatedly subverts expectation and deliberately foregrounds its narrative lurches and bumps..."Sight and Sound "Trier's compassion for what it takes to survive, mixed with the love he bestows on Oslo, is rewardingly profound." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly "The lead performance by Anders Danielsen Lie is hypnotic....It's one of the more credible screen portraits of a lost soul in some time."Film Comment "OSLO is an example of strong, confident filmmaking in which nothing is miscalculated or out of place....This portrait of existential despair is beautifully made without being self-conscious about its art."Los Angeles Times "[Trier] writes his hero into a tight corner, but finds a simultaneously graceful and uncompromising way back into the light. Neat trick, that."A.V. Club5.03259

Spin (p.104) - "Its best moments are its duskiest." - Grade: B+The Wire (p.67) - "Aksel Schauffler is Superpitcher, boy genius of Kompakt and lover of all things shadow-soaked and wind-kissed."0.2325919

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