Adam's Apples
Film Movement | Release Date: March 16, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
2
Negative:
3
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80
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
When the most sympathetic character in your comedy is a skinhead, you’re definitely on to something, and Jensen definitely is here. Read full review
80
VarietyGunnar 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. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Peculiar but oddly winsome fable. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Jensen tarnishes the lining of every cloud in one wickedly funny scene after another. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. 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. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
This Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley 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. Read full review
50
Village VoiceEd 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. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
Smart-aleck comedy and spirituality aren't incompatible, but in Adam's Apples they cancel each other out. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyScott 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. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesSam Adams
The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice. Read full review
25
New York PostV.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? Read full review
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