Against the Ice
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 2, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsMar 2, 2022
Against the Ice delivers all the delirious period drama thrills and survival horror angst that you could want from a movie with that title. Read full review
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Screen RantNadir SamaraMar 11, 2022
Against the Ice is a searing portrayal of the cost to explore in the early 20th century. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMar 2, 2022
Against the Ice is a Danish story flattened for a global audience. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 23, 2022
Against the Ice is very square, very straight, and just naggingly average in all departments. Read full review
58
Paste MagazineAurora AmidonMar 3, 2022
Sigh. If only a good cast was enough to salvage a plodding, tedious film from the snowy wreckage. Read full review
58
The Film StageJared MobarakMar 3, 2022
The unfortunate truth of the matter is that, like this duo’s supplies, returns diminish with every passing day. Read full review
50
SlashfilmDanielle RyanMar 2, 2022
If you're looking for a feel-bad movie with some absolutely stunning cinematography and an appreciation for the tenacity of the human spirit, then Against the Ice was made for you.  Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 2, 2022
Veteran Danish director Peter Flinth (“Beatles” and “Nobel’s Last Will” were his) delivers a film that feels approved by its co-writer and star in terms of thoroughness, but that lumbers as it passes from one waypoint to the next in the standard “alone in the Arctic” narrative. Read full review
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Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganFeb 23, 2022
A soft-edged, stolid blend of gorgeous geographical authenticity with a global-facing English-speaking cast whose accents range from Joe Cole’s Brit to co-producer, co-writer and leading man Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s mid-Atlantic purr. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 2, 2022
Forget “The Terror,” here comes “The Tedium.” Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Simran HansApr 5, 2022
There is about as much jeopardy as you’d expect from an action thriller about an obscure land dispute; a tense encounter with an angry polar bear and a phantom hot air balloon are highlights during the endless plodding across the frozen wilderness. Read full review
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The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaMar 2, 2022
It’s perfectly formulaic. Read full review
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VarietyJessica KiangFeb 23, 2022
To reduce a titanic struggle for survival in one of the most inhospitable climes on earth to such by-the-numbers drama is in many ways akin to standing on a jagged frozen peak, gazing across blizzard-assailed permafrost plains to crumbling white cliffs and ice shelfs beyond and thinking “Snow.” Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 22, 2022
In the end, the most remarkable thing about Against the Ice is that a real-life story of two men at the mercy of the unforgiving elements, of hunger and illness, possible attack and encroaching madness, can be so curiously deprived of tension. Read full review
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