101 Reykjavík is a straightforward sort of movie, but its unabashed innocence and stylistic aplomb are wonderfully endearing.

| Feb 24, 2020

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2005

A tightly packed little snowball of a comedy that picks up steam as it rolls along.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2003

Everything about this Icelandic sitcom comedy seemed off kilter.

| Original Score: C | Apr 21, 2003

It's a strange and distant tale that would only appear on Jerry Springer in America but comes off as quirky and cute when presented from the cold Nordic perspective.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2003

A film that's as outlandish as it is entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

Fails because it's nearly impossible to care about the main character.

| Oct 21, 2002

Kormakur ... balances tones with a smooth, mature confidence.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2002

Culture clashes, gender roles and political correctnesses all get their moment in this droll winner.

| May 10, 2002

...there is more intelligence and humor in this 93-minute diamond-in-the-rough than in 10 American coming-of-age flicks.

| Original Score: B | Apr 15, 2002

funny, sexy, and utterly moored in its distinctive landscape

| Original Score: B | Apr 14, 2002

As a tour through the messy lifestyles of the young and the wasted in Europe's most remote yet hippest capital, it's entertaining and often hilarious.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 24, 2002

Hilmer Snaer Gudnason makes Hylner ... weirdly sweet and appealing, and as for the rest of the cast, well, we've yet to see a movie that was not vastly improved by the presence of Victoria Abril.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 23, 2002

A times as flatly deadpan as Hylner, at others as passionately eccentric as Abril's Lola, 101 Reykjavik is at least dedicatedly unexpected.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Imagine, if you dare, Ingmar Bergman as a consummate slacker with a wicked sense of pop humour.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002

The director wisely resists the temptation to treat slackerdom as just a blase counterpoint to the craziness of the world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2002

Hilynur serves as a likable antihero.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2001