Unfortunately it's all so terribly boring and predictable.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 16, 2019

A film of delicious moral ambiguity and complexity that lures the audience in with its strange and terrible beauty.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Lurid and stylish, this 2008 Danish feature plays like a cross between The Postman Always Rings Twice and High Noon, with a dash of Gothic thriller.

| Jan 5, 2011

"Terribly Happy" is a little light on the plotting, going on narrative autopilot for the last third of the film instead of giving us a few extra turns of the screw for good measure.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2010

Not quite a comedy but as darkly comic a crime drama as you'll find, this offbeat modern noir... is a weirdly compelling portrait of a town that has its own sense of justice...

| Aug 11, 2010

The setting is stark and simple - a semi-deserted, two-street town amid long, flat marshland - but Director Henrik Ruben Genz infuses it all with a dark, twisted beauty.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 11, 2010

It has been aptly compared to the Coen Brothers and films like Blood Simple (1984).

| Jul 23, 2010

Entertaining and full of surprising twists, this highly cinematic tale of a Copenhagen policeman working punishment duty in the provinces plays with genre in a manner that can be compared with the Coen brothers or David Lynch.

| Jul 6, 2010

A nearly surreal Scandinavian crime thriller with noirish shades of a Stockholm syndrome kicking in, this creepy delight unfolds on the border somewhere between the Nordic boondocks and the Twilight Zone.

| Jun 27, 2010

Terribly Happy is a comedy of misdirection of the blackest hue...

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 25, 2010

Obviously, the dark nature of the story will turn off some audiences. But the film will appeal to those who love the thriller genre...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2010

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2010

Terribly Happy must surely be the greatest Danish Western ever made.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2010

With its fascinating story, perfect pacing and superbly moody camera work by cinematographer Jorgen Johansson, Terribly Happy takes you by a slow, purposeful surprise.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Apr 13, 2010

Ganz cooks up a compelling paranoid mood,but there's not enough to sustain the tone, and eventually the movie burns itself out.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 26, 2010

Terribly Happy is a gripping morality tale, one that uses macabre humor and sudden reversals to show how seemingly little mistakes can become life-changing disasters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 26, 2010

No noirish yarn this good stays obscure long

| Original Score: B | Mar 25, 2010

An American remake is said to be in the works; see the original before someone lesser than Genz -- or the Coens -- gets their mitts on it.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 12, 2010

Genz and Erling have constructed a story so clever that the pleasure of following its twists is enough in itself.

| Original Score: B | Mar 5, 2010