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Green Butchers, The

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Foreign

Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen

Directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen

Release Date:
Theatrical: December 3, 2004
DVD: May 17, 2005

Running Time: 100 minutes, Color

Origin: Denmark

Language(s): Danish / German (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: R for language, disturbing images and drug use

Starring Line Kruse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, Aksel Erhardtsen, Bodil Jørgensen, Ole Thestrup, and Lily Weiding

This comedy about two friends who start their own butcher shop combines the trite, the morbid and the amusing. (Newmarket Films)

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

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

While the acting is top-notch, the real star of the film is the script.

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80

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Mikkelsen and Kaas are up to the demands of their roles, revealing impressive range and skill.

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75

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Macabre, oddly gripping.

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70

Film Threat Stina Chyn

A dark comedy whose story is propelled by shock but sustained by issues of love and forgiveness.

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70

Washington Post Nelson Pressley

Jensen's tone is admirably dry, and the film offers its pleasures through small, writerly details.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Pitch-perfect performances bring it all home, particularly that of Danish leading man Mikkelsen.

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63

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Neither rare nor particularly well done. If you're looking for Danish meatballs served on dark wry, though, you could do worse.

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63

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Black comedies don't get much darker than this.

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60

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The result isn't exactly funny, just profoundly peculiar and even occasionally, unexpectedly poignant.

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50

Variety Gunnar Rehlin

Will be either a turn-on or turn-off, depending on one's sense of humor.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

It's a clammy, odd duck of a movie, a black comedy that seems strangely content with merely being morbid.

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50

Village Voice Benjamin Strong

The two leads capably humanize an overdetermined screenplay that often fumbles with bludgeoning symbolism and rank sentimentality.

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50

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

It's the sick humor that's most appealing about this odd little Danish film.

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50

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

A movie in search of a theme. Svend and Bjarne aren't bad or uninteresting characters, and certainly the two talented actors playing them are inherently watchable. But there's too little meat on these bones.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Should have been either darker or funnier. Or both.

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50

New York Post V.A. Musetto

A flawed black comedy about two buddies who open a butcher's shop in a small Danish town.

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40

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The ghoulish tone and Mikkelsen's glassy performance smother any laughs.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Neither funny nor outrageous nor horrifying nor conventionally affecting.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

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

j h gave it a 5:
Det er sweeny todd i dansk.

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