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Adam's Apples

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Adam's Apples reviews
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8.2 User Score:

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Based on 12 critic reviews
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Based on 7 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Foreign

Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen

Directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen

Release Date:
Theatrical: March 16, 2007

Running Time: 94 minutes, Color

Origin: Germany / Denmark

Language(s): Danish (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: R for language and violence

Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, Paprika Steen, Ali Kazim, Ole Thestrup, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Gyrd Løfqvist

A wickedly dark comedy about a middle-aged neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church. (Outsider Pictures)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

When the most sympathetic character in your comedy is a skinhead, you’re definitely on to something, and Jensen definitely is here.

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80

Variety Gunnar Rehlin

A funny, politically incorrect and, somewhere deep down, thoughtful black comedy, Adam's Apples is the third and final film in helmer-writer Anders Thomas Jensen's excellent trilogy centered on oddballs and misfits in Denmark.

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75

TV Guide Ken Fox

Peculiar but oddly winsome fable.

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75

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Jensen tarnishes the lining of every cloud in one wickedly funny scene after another.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson

This oddball story, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jen sen, whom Dogme followers might remember from his screenplay for the 1999 hit "Mifune," is more than a one-joke concept. Its characters are sometimes cruel, sometimes sweet, but always recognizably human.

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67

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

This Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark.

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63

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The movie is one long pose. But it develops into an idea slightly greater than its flippancy. The steady frenzy is whipped into a roux of two reasonably developed characters.

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50

The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz

Smart-aleck comedy and spirituality aren't incompatible, but in Adam's Apples they cancel each other out.

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50

Village Voice Ed Gonzalez

The melodramas that prolific Anders Thomas Jensen has sculpted over the years have been among the richest works to come out of Scandinavia since Bergman's heyday. But no road is without its pockmarks and Adam's Apples may be the low point of the wunderkind's career.

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30

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

Some will see this as a movie about how we're all God’s children. I saw only the misanthropic fulminations of Jensen's runaway ego.

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30

Los Angeles Times Sam Adams

The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice.

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25

New York Post V.A. Musetto

The characters are too cliched to be funny, and Jensen's script can't stay focused long enough to make an impression. Where is Lars von Trier when we need him?

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Beth C. gave it a9:
I found it beautiful and funny I didn't see it as uplifting since it was a dark comedy and god hates the main character so I don't understand the critics remarks. Hilarious!

Jon F. gave it a10:
Smart comedy. No doubt one of the best I`ve seen.

Susan S. gave it a9:
Could never be made in the US brillinatly refreshing hysterical comedy with a covert but heart warming message.

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