| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 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

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

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

Flame & Citron, based on the lives of two actual Resistance heroes, is a taut, handsome production -- the most expensive Danish film to date -- and it looks like a film noir, as indeed the costumes, cars, guns and fugitives force it to.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2009

A deeply involving look at people living permanently on the knife-edge of danger.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2009

A satisfying thriller interestingly complicated by its study of character and compromise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2009

The action scenes are well-staged and the performances are aces.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2009

As directed by Ole Christian Madsen, the thriller features well-choreographed shootouts and assassinations. But the script is too melodramatic and complicated for its own good.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 31, 2009

The director Ole Christian Madsen's Flame & Citron is a fictionalized film, based on fact, about two Danish Resistance fighters.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2009

The film is based on true events: Flame and Citron (both noms de guerre) became national heroes. But it's really a meditation on the nature of heroism, and the quest for purity of purpose.

| Jul 31, 2009

Madsen's action sequences are beautifully choreographed and shot, and the movie is packed with slick shootouts and narrow escapes, but it all lacks a certain oomph.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 30, 2009

It's hard to argue with such primal filmgoing pleasures, especially once the film introduces notions of how good people lose their morality during wartime.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2009

Of all European nations, Denmark enjoys the nearest thing to a heroic record of resisting the Nazi occupiers -- which adds both poignancy and punch to Ole Christian Madsen's fact-based drama about two posthumously honored Danes.

| Jul 30, 2009

As a film about the underground resistance movement in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, Flame & Citron's spies are the historical equivalent of superheroes.

| Jul 29, 2009