Another Round Reviews
Mads Mikkelsen is on vintage form in this boozy tale of family and masculinity.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024
Another Round is as fun and life-affirming as it is splendidly realised and crafted. Much like catching up with a great friend over pints in the pub, you can’t help but want more of it.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024
ANOTHER ROUND could easily have become a paean for navel-gazing self-discovery... Instead, it’s soulful and tender, never judging its leads even as they wreck themselves in pursuit of something nonexistent.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 5, 2024
[Another Round] instead handles the subject matter with grace and a bit of humor throughout. Also, Mads Mikkelsen dancing, nothing else needs to be said...
| Feb 23, 2024
Another Round is a high-concept character piece that dips its toes into national themes, but never long enough to put off the international market it’s clearly geared towards.
| Feb 6, 2024
One thing that is certain is that the audience can raise a glass to Vinterberg’s work with Mikkelsen, which never fails to captivate. Salut!
| Original Score: A | Sep 17, 2023
Another Round explores the allure and slippery slope of self-medicating with alcohol. But it’s also about learning to be happy after becoming cognizant of how the day-to-day newness and excitement of youth imperceptibly morphed into mundane routine.
| Jul 25, 2023
Vinterberg's movie is appealing because it's self-aware. It doesn't dismiss the seriousness of addiction, but it doesn't define it as something inescapable in an early stage, either.
| Jul 20, 2023
The Academy seems to be slowly but surely moving in a more international direction, which is both great and long overdue...
| May 2, 2023
Another Round is a raucous, joyous tale of friendship and catharsis.
| Original Score: A+ | Mar 8, 2023
Mikkelsen, Bo Larsen, Ranthe, and Millang bring out the best in each character's new growth of adulthood, pushing the boundaries of their rediscovered youth. Its final scene is one of the best of 2020, capturing resilience against life's worst.
| Mar 6, 2023
Mads Mikkelsen delivers an incredibly nuanced performance... Vinterberg and co-writer Tobias Lindholm are unafraid to examine the good, the bad and the ugly sides of alcohol consumption and the effects it has on those drinking and those around them.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2022
It’s really a nutty premise, the kind Hollywood is almost certain to remake and probably botch. But it works here because Vinterberg isn’t as enthralled with the concept as much as he is the people involved.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022
[The protagonists] are drinking their midlife crisis shaken, not stirred. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2022
Even if the plot of Another Round feels a bit unsurprising, it is consistently engaging thanks to the performances of the four leads.
| Original Score: 7/10 | May 11, 2022
(...) Thus, beyond the authenticity in Mikkelsen's performance, one always feels the thin and malevolent threads of Vintenberg, that sly smile of an old testament's God who subjects his children to various challenges.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 30, 2022
Director Thomas Vinterberg digs much deeper than the initial premise. In some ways, drinking is a very small part of this story, as we follow men in the tragicomic throes of midlife crisis.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2022
Another Round works best as an experience to feel rather than an experience to analyse or really think about under a critical lens.
| Feb 22, 2022
Another Round invites us to criticize and self-criticism. Which is no small thing in a world of irresponsible critics. [Full review in Spanish]
| Dec 14, 2021
A provocative take on Danish drinking culture that asks a bold question and offers a mixed and surprising response, topped off with Mikkelsen's exuberant dance of freedom
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2021