Shows how tricky this idea is to pull off, even in a society consistently rated one of the happiest in the world.

| Jun 8, 2020

The Danish keep on killing it at finding new angles in family dramas. In The Commune, we see a marriage fall apart as they try to assimilate the new limits of personal freedom during the swinging 70s.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2020

A weightless and unworthy drama about Copenhagen communal living in the 1970s.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 29, 2019

If The Commune was entirely Anna's story then perhaps the film would have fared better. It falls down almost entirely on the strength of her husband Erik's character.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2019

It's so frustratingly close to brilliance but never coalesces into anything more than a strongly constructed familial drama, one that allows its supporting characters to fade in and out of the happenings with little rhyme or reason.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2018

Think Abigail's Party with added Nordic bleakness, plus superb performances from Trine Dyrholm and Ulrich Thomsen in the leads, and you have the measure of this smart, stylish drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

The Commune is a punishing movie; it's 111 minutes but feels longer. I don't blame the actors.

| Aug 8, 2018

At least Vinterberg is not nostalgic about the past, but rather wistful-sooner or later we all betray our romantic selves of the past.

| Nov 7, 2017

With the subtitles clearly struggling to capture the film's constantly shifting dramatic tone, this feels like that rare thing -- a piece of Scandi-drama that simply doesn't translate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2017

[Actress Trine] Dyrholm gives a painfully vulnerable performance which makes up for a few melodramatic moments towards the end.

| Aug 18, 2017

[Thomas] Vinterberg sets up a scenario that begs for subtle depth and then walks away. And so do the characters.

| Aug 10, 2017

The Commune turns out to be a fairly predictable exercise in neoliberal backlash, as a bunch of free-love radicals crash on the rocks of their own enlightenment.

| Jul 13, 2017

A nostalgic look at Danish life in the 1970s, this smartly shot movie's a relatively relaxed departure for the usually intense Thomas Vinterberg.

| Jun 14, 2017

What follows is an incredible performance by Dyrholm as a woman doing her best to keep things together when her entire world seems to be falling apart, and with everyone right there to witness the unraveling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2017

Vinterberg oversees excellent performances and crushing turns of plot.

| Original Score: B+ | May 31, 2017

It doesn't work. With its reliance on clich and a superficial understanding of its characters, The Commune fails to hit a surprising note.

| May 26, 2017

The actors keep the movie involving, and for some, Dyrholm's performance alone is ticket-worthy. But the impact quickly fades when she leaves the screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2017

The fissures and follies of living in an urban commune during the 1970s in Copenhagen.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 26, 2017

Considering its title, the film needs more supporting character development to flesh out its central domestic drama.

| May 26, 2017

The Commune is grounded in gritty acting at the core of an otherwise drawn-out melodrama.

| May 25, 2017