Grody to the max.

| Sep 17, 2019

Polar is an astonishingly flaccid film, a movie that prioritizes blood splatter and bouncing butts over literally all else, including plot and character development.

| Feb 7, 2019

If it has any redeeming qualities, it chooses to keep them a secret.

| Jan 31, 2019

A gleefully unhinged teenage-boy dream that aims only for hard, shiny surfaces, and stays there.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 30, 2019

Polar is pure trash, but the generousness - and, in the final stretch, the poignancy - with which Mikkelsen approaches even the most lurid of the film's conceits at least pushes it toward the top of the garbage heap.

| Jan 28, 2019

There is a line of reasoning that dictates that any movie featuring Mads Mikkelsen with laser-gun-cannons attached to his hands should be at least a little fun. Netflix's Polar, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, somehow defies the odds.

| Jan 28, 2019

A gross, stupid and relentlessly ugly film from start to finish.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 25, 2019

This abhorrent actioner is vulgar auteurism at its most depraved.

| Jan 25, 2019

Too bad the only thrill you get from all the bloodletting is that you know each cartoony death brings you that much closer to the end credits.

| Jan 24, 2019

The film's horniness and amorality, a slap in the face of fanatically cautious contemporary mores, might've been more shocking if it weren't placed so firmly in quotation marks.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 24, 2019

There are occasionally clever moments in Polar... but they are drowned in a sea of blood and guts as Åkerlund stuffs his film with wall-to-wall violence.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 24, 2019

Polar is an execrable motion picture, a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino '90s exploitation baggie.

| Jan 23, 2019