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Jar City
Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    80
    Comic, disturbing and affecting by turns, and often all at the same time. Its funniest scenes are also its most unsettling.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    80
    Jar City is chilly and cerebral but also morbidly and powerfully alive to grossness and physicality.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    The story, based on a best-selling novel, has familiar overtones; but Kormakur overcomes them with stylish direction - Iceland's natural beauty looks great - and a gripping performance by Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    75
    Eventually, some mysteries become clear, but Kormákur's attempts to be crafty are too often clumsy, and the movie's unmotivated time leaps are close to a cheat.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jim Ridley
    70
    Here, the movie's urgency lies mostly in its convincing cast, its varied urban-to-pastoral locations (in light that ranges from harsh to bilious), and its cold-pro handling of familiar genre machinery, made fresh by unusual detail--such as the investigator's fast-food predilection for sheep heads.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    70
    A taut police procedural that craftily blends ripped-from-the-headlines genetic issues with foreboding Icelandic stoicism, Jar City reps a supremely confident stride into mass-appeal genre fare for Icelandic hyphenate Baltasar Kormakur.
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