Flickering Lights
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings
- Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen
- Summary: This Danish gangster comedy follows a group of ruffians who attempt to turn their lives around while turning the restaurant business upside down.
- Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
- Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Crime
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Positive: 1 out of 5
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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Negative: 2 out of 5
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80Jensen helms with assurance and maturity, with rapid but unhectic pacing, plenty of dark humor and deft action sequences that turn cliches from U.S. action-comedies into something very Danish.
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60It's funny and violent and fast and, er, Danish.
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60A hit in Denmark, this impressive debut feature from writer-director Anders Thom as Jensen is decidedly offbeat, with Jensen contrasting moments of brutal violence with the emerging gentleness of Torkild and his friends.
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30Anders Thomas Jensen's Flickering Lights may have been a huge hit in Denmark, but it doesn't travel well. A bleak male-bonding comedy that's a queasy blend of brutal humor and escalating sentimentality, it is overlong, heavy-handed, slow and unpersuasive.
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MarkW9Too bad Americans can't make comedies like this.
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