The film is too staid and over-conscious of its own importance to be entertaining. Give me The Great Escape any day of the week.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

A hard jewel of righteous political fury.

| Aug 29, 2011

Madsen has acknowledged a strong debt to Pierre Melville's 1969 classic Army of Shadows. This one deserves a seat at the same table.

| Jan 15, 2010

...a film noir set in wartime where there's moral ambiguity almost everywhere you look as well as large measures of heroism, treachery and ordinary human failings.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 18, 2009

It's fast-paced, stylish and thrilling. But it also raises one tough question.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 17, 2009

It winds its way through a tricky, fact-based plot that's sometimes reminiscent of film noir. At the center is a bewitching femme fatale whose allegiances and motives are less than clear.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 17, 2009

While it may not be a smorgasbord of red herrings and red meat, Flame and Citron is often chilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 17, 2009

Madsen makes the most of his budget, and he keeps pulling his camera back for long, visually sumptuous overhead shots.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2009

A drop-dead gorgeous period noir, rife with paranoia, femmes fatales, and good men inexorably sinking into the bloody mire and opaque texture of life (and death) during wartime.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 13, 2009

Unfortunately, although it was supposedly inspired by the morally conflicted French Resistance masterpiece Army of Shadows, Flame fizzles more than it flames.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 6, 2009

A suspenseful, often riverting drama of World War II resistance that combines old-fashioned virtues of craft and style with a more modern sense of nuance and complexity.

| Original Score: B | Oct 31, 2009

[An] atypical and moody noir war film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2009

This film is based on a true story that director Ole Christian Madsen feels must be told with earnest noir and war-movie clichés.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2009

...a fascinating dual character study lodged within a somewhat stodgy film.

| Original Score: B | Aug 30, 2009

The filmmakers do a terrific job in placing us in 1944 Copenhagen under Nazi rule.

| Original Score: B | Aug 30, 2009

"Flame and Citron" is a spine-tingling war drama with superb acting.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2009

The film evolves into a mystery about who the two men can trust, besides each other, and the results are often nail-biting.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2009

Flame & Citron examines the moral shadings of the Danish resistance during World War II without turning into a revisionist bore.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 21, 2009

Maintains a high level of suspense for more than two hours.

| Aug 20, 2009