Jar City
IFC Films | Release Date: February 29, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
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Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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80
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Jar City is chilly and cerebral but also morbidly and powerfully alive to grossness and physicality. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Comic, disturbing and affecting by turns, and often all at the same time. Its funniest scenes are also its most unsettling. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubSam Adams
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. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
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. Read full review
70
VarietyEddie Cockrell
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. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJim Ridley
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. Read full review
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