It is outlined as a down-to-earth drama that achieves moments of psychological scope with its austere and frigid atmospheres, but whose core is almost always run over by the lack of narrative impulse that puts me in iceberg mode. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 4, 2023

A White, White Day is an Icelandic noir that, at times, has great power in the moments where a single, chilling nonverbal look from the great Ingvar Sigurðsson says everything you need to know that’s boiling beneath the surface.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2022

A White, White Day is a stunningly beautiful piece of art.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Resultantly, A White, White Day possesses some merit as a measured, convincing adult drama, but its continual opaqueness is often maddening.

| Jun 5, 2021

Tense, haunting and all-round excellent.

| Apr 3, 2021

... as much harrowing as entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2021

Some intriguing moments are buried in a sea of ennui.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 6, 2020

The slow-burning A White, White Day thrives on a barely-felt erotic charge before sexual jealousy eventually runs rampant behind the domestic veneer.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 28, 2020

Part family drama, part murder mystery, part thriller, A White, White Day plays out unconventionally. Its striking visuals and impressive performances hook you in.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 27, 2020

Ingimundur is a man of few words. His tactiturnity might denote a rugged, independent spirit, but it's also the sign of an introverted personality that allows anxieties to seethe and boil over

| Jul 31, 2020

The deliberate pacing of A White, White Day won't be everyone's cup of tea, but writer/director Hlynur Pálmason clearly used this method to show how someone's mental instability can easily be hidden among the everyday and mundane activities of life.

| Jul 16, 2020

A White, White Day is far more than a powerhouse character study of a man undone by grief, it's a subversion of the classic structure of the psychological thriller.

| Jul 16, 2020

...there's much power in its tender portrayal of adult despair, and the hope found in responsibilities shouldered, not shirked.

| Jul 16, 2020

The film fairly ravishes the senses, with its sense of weather as destiny. All of the performances are solid. Sigurdsson and Hlynsdottir, as grandfather and granddaughter, are like granite: the film succeeds because of their bond.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2020

What now for a director this eye-poppingly talented? It would be unwise to miss the answer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2020

A grieving grandfather's actions are increasingly unhinged.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2020

Some of the technical attributes of the film are mind-blowing, and Pálmason is unafraid to stick his neck out with some extremely bold directorial choices.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 8, 2020

Hlynur Pálmason subverts the Nordic noir genre and achieves emotional and artistic success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2020

A White, White Day cleverly uses the signposts of a conventional revenge drama to explore the inner workings of a man in crisis.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 6, 2020

Sigurdsson is remarkable, so solid he appears granite-hewn, one of those actors so economical and unselfconscious in movement and gesture you're mesmerised just to watch him crossing a room.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2020