Another Round
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: December 4, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
Watch Now
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 11, 2020
In a year when much of the world has been stuck at home, day drinking, Another Round is a welcome shot of bitters with a warm cognac chaser, and a bracing/revealing renewal of a grand Danish partnership, Vinterberg and Mads his muse. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshDec 3, 2020
While Another Round inspects the varying effects of alcohol on daily life, it’s far from clinical. Waves of ebullience, love, humor and sorrow crash on top of each other, as anyone who’s ever been overserved can attest to. It isn’t prescriptive about drinking, and doesn’t seek to impart any message other than that life is hard, and sometimes dark, and sometimes ecstatically beautiful. Read full review
95
PolygonKaren HanSep 24, 2020
Vinterberg’s ending offers an unlikely sense of catharsis, even though it isn’t truly happy, turning the film into something fresh and affecting. On top of all that, the film provides the opportunity to watch Mikkelsen give perhaps his best performance yet. Read full review
94
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpDec 23, 2020
Here, merriment and melancholy go hand in hand, partners in life’s dance just as a stiff drink is an accompaniment to life’s pleasures. The combination proves as intoxicating as the fancy-pants cocktails the boys whip up together—if not more so. Read full review
91
ConsequenceBlake GobleDec 24, 2020
In a word, Another Round is intoxicating. Vinterberg elevates what could have been a mope-fest with a magnificently defiant tone and a powerhouse performance from Mikkelsen. Read full review
90
ABC NewsPeter TraversMar 19, 2021
A peak-form Mads Mikkelsen stars in this hilarious and heartbreaking spellbinder as a Copenhagen high-school teacher who thinks day drinking might sharpen his faculties. The Oscar for Best International Feature belongs right here. Read full review
90
VoxAlissa WilkinsonDec 23, 2020
By the end, Another Round is a truly wonderful movie about trying to come to grips with life, anchored by terrific performances, infectious music, and a real understanding of the humming discontentment that all adults must learn to navigate in their own ways. It’s the sort of comedy fused with tragedy that may just best represent what life really is: a melancholy, glorious, slightly off-kilter dance. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternDec 18, 2020
This is a movie about the joys of friendship, among many other things, and the possibility of change—for the better, not only for the worse, and not only through blood-alcohol adjustment. Read full review
90
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 20, 2020
Vinterberg and Lindholm take a substantive look at substance abuse, placing it in character context and avoiding dramatic hysterics. Another Round is a film of more quiet desperation and a more thoughtful morality, and it goes down with a kick. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleJenny NulfDec 11, 2020
The problem between Anika and Martin is the problem they had from the beginning: He is a shell of who he once was, lost in his own middle-aged melancholy. The problem is not the substance, it’s the person, and with Another Round, Vinterberg has crafted a beautiful dissection of that conundrum. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Sarah-Tai BlackDec 17, 2020
Vinterberg is a master of storytelling and character here, bringing forth equal parts tragicomedy and suspense in a way that is refreshingly eager to be grounded in the ordinary realities of life. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 17, 2020
The cast is outstanding, with Mikkelsen leading the way in a nomination-level performance as Martin. Another Round is filled with memorable sequences. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy BurrDec 4, 2020
A stinging, gorgeously filmed tragicomedy about male insecurity and the power of positive drinking. Read full review
85
Film ThreatHanna B.Dec 17, 2020
Mikkelsen is at his best, but all the actors convey a range of emotions masterfully and share real chemistry. Add in Vinterberg’s careful direction of the wry screenplay he wrote alongside Tobias Lindholm, and you have a great dramatic comedy. Read full review
83
Original-CinJim SlotekDec 23, 2020
Mikkelsen’s affecting performance is backed by an exceptional ensemble cast, who bring to life the fears and emotional scars that come with age, and the part alcohol can play in it, for better or worse. Read full review
83
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferSep 16, 2020
There are not “funny” moments or “dramatic” moments for their characters; there are simply “human” moments. Whether people react to them with laughter, pity or some combination of them both may say more about themselves than the film. Read full review
80
Little White LiesElla KempNov 30, 2021
There’s some familiar moral teachings, but Vinterberg at his most meditative and earnest is a joy to watch. Man isn’t cured of all ills – but he is acutely aware of just how many more rounds are worth having. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJul 2, 2021
Shot in chocolatey browns amid the more comfortable suburbs of Copenhagen, Another Round underlines its later, more cautious warnings by reminding us how inexhaustibly tedious the drunk seem to the sober. Read full review
80
EmpireIan FreerJun 29, 2021
If it says nothing new about the dangers of over-indulgence, Another Round is funny and rich, a fresh, perfectly played, clear-eyed take on middle age ennui. Intoxicating. Read full review
80
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJan 8, 2021
All in all, however, this is one of the director’s most absorbing works. It soaks you up, and its melancholy (a shot of Martin, say, eating cereal on his own, in the semi-dark) is somehow less disturbing than its sprees. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreDec 16, 2020
The delight of the exuberantly bittersweet closing sequence comes from the way it fulfills a promise the audience doesn’t realize, until that point, has been made. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangDec 3, 2020
Another Round itself often moves and swings like a piece of music: Staccato in its rhythms and symphonic in structure, it’s awash in Scarlatti and Schubert, bar tunes and patriotic songs, and climaxes with a jubilant blast of Danish pop/R&B. It sings, and it sparkles. Read full review
80
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganSep 15, 2020
Another Round (Druk) is a funny film which is also desperately sad, a superficially amusing indictment of drinking culture which is much more bitter than sweet. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoDec 9, 2020
Even as the final act starts to get a bit manipulative by stretching some previously established realism, Mikkelsen holds it together, and then he comes out literally swinging in one of the best final scenes of the year. It’s such a jubilant moment that you may walk out of the theater feeling a little buzzed. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Dec 3, 2020
Another Round doesn’t quite come across like a cautionary tale, and that’s because Vinterberg takes a refreshingly, well, sober stance on the entwined pleasures and pitfalls of drinking. He’s made the rare movie about getting shitfaced that’s somehow neither a wallow in the gutter nor a fantasy of life without hangovers. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattDec 2, 2020
Mikkelsen has become perhaps Denmark’s most familiar face Stateside over the past decade. But he still feels most in his skin in roles like these, and in Round’s final ecstatic scene, the actor does what only true stars seem able to: Take the silly or messy or improbable, and make it fly. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChuck BowenSep 18, 2020
Thomas Vinterberg’s latest, like The Hunt, is ultimately a parable about breaking a social contract. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDevika GirishDec 3, 2020
It’s a sweet, strangely modest tragicomedy about the pleasures of (mostly banal) excess. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonSep 15, 2020
Another Round ultimately has little fresh or profound to say about intoxication and addiction, but it is an engaging tribute to friendship, family and bacchanalian hedonism in moderation. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyJul 6, 2021
Even if it springs few genuine revelations, this loping sine wave of a film still lands as an honest take on the high highs and low lows of a sodden Scandinavian lifestyle. Read full review
60
CineVueMatthew AndersonJul 1, 2021
It doesn’t hit the heights of former collaborations, but there’s a lot to drink in and appreciate here, and Mikkelsen’s all-dancing finale is one of the most exultant, triumphant moments in recent cinema memory. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 15, 2020
The performances are persuasive and watchable, especially Mikkelsen, the guys’ alpha-leader, who ruinously makes being drunk look pretty acceptable until it is too late. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekMar 19, 2021
If Another Round had been presented as a farce, a trifle, it might, paradoxically enough, carry more weight. Good comedies have a way of cutting deep, maybe because they relax us just enough so that we let down our guard. But Another Round is both too serious and not serious enough. Read full review
40
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 15, 2020
Another Round is the kind of movie that’s so into its cool concept that it doesn’t sweat the details. Yet the film’s sloppy broadness ends up fighting the Dogme style, which keeps telling us that these people are authentic. Read full review
More From This Movie

79 Critic Reviews

8.1 User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 81 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2 77 Project Hail Mary
3 75 Send Help
4 73 Hoppers
5 72 The Sheep Detectives
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL