79
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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeVinterberg 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.
- 83The PlaylistMarshall ShafferThe PlaylistMarshall ShafferThere 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.
- 80Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganAnother 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.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThomas Vinterberg’s latest, like The Hunt, is ultimately a parable about breaking a social contract.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMikkelsen 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.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonAnother 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.
- 70The New York TimesDevika GirishThe New York TimesDevika GirishIt’s a sweet, strangely modest tragicomedy about the pleasures of (mostly banal) excess.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe performances are persuasive and watchable, especially Mikkelsen, the guys’ alpha-leader, who ruinously makes being drunk look pretty acceptable until it is too late.
- 40VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanAnother 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.