When the most sympathetic character in your comedy is a skinhead, you’re definitely on to something, and Jensen definitely is here.
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Variety
Variety
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.
Jensen tarnishes the lining of every cloud in one wickedly funny scene after another.
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Boston GlobeWesley Morris
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.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
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.
The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice.
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New York PostV.A. Musetto
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?