Utoya: July 22
Nordisk Film | Release Date: TBA CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Screen DailyDemetrios Matheou
Poppe’s way into the story – spending every second with one young woman as she navigates the carnage – is a moving testimony to the simple heroism that such events bring to the surface. Ultimately, it’s an homage to the very generation of young Norwegians who Breivik wanted to obliterate. Read full review
83
The Film StageEd Frankl
This grueling, pulsating, in-your-face film–almost to a fault–has ferocious power, but it’s going to divide like a fissure. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid Ehrlich
The film has the power to make our bodies catch up with our hearts — the power to help us safely experience the kind of terror we need to remember in a way that makes it impossible for us to forget. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
It is an absorbing and moving tribute to the courage of the young victims of Utøya. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy Lodge
U – July 22 is designed to be as immersive as it is exhausting, and largely succeeds. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van Hoeij
For this critic, the events in the home stretch finally feel too much like concessions to the necessities of the laws of fictional drama, with first an unexpected twist followed by a melodramatic one. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansFeb 12, 2020
This harrowing retelling of Norwegian rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik’s 2011 terrorist attack on the island of Utøya is less exploitative than Paul Greengrass’s brutal, Netflix-bound, English-language version, but the question remains: does a tragedy have to be turned into cinema for people to engage with it? Read full review
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