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

Dyrholm ... movingly captures the struggles of a middle-aged career woman who revels in the new freedoms of the 1970s, while ultimately falling victim to them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2017

Trine Dyrholm delivers a powerful performance as Anna, a woman whose heart won't align with her head, as does Ulrich Thomsen as the testy Erik.

| May 25, 2017

"The Commune" doesn't pull its punches: We're shown that nontraditional households can be very taxing on individuals and are anything but good medicine for stale marriages.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2017

Dyrholm's extraordinary performance is conspicuously better than Thomsen's. She's the best - the only - reason to check out The Commune.

| Original Score: B- | May 19, 2017

These are all fascinating concepts, but The Commune isn't all that interested in exploring them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 19, 2017

Dyrholm is always exceptional but here as a femme d'un certain age in both home and career letting it all fall apart, she is incandescent, with a stillness that transcends the histrionics around her.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2017

Expect to find your own ideas about love and personal responsibility challenged.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2017

Sweeter and soapier than we've come to expect from the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, "The Commune" swaddles the pain of a disintegrating marriage in a good-natured cocoon of laughter and larks.

| May 18, 2017

Though the whole cast shines in this house, the film is really a showcase for Dyrholm. Her stiff blank face, the stuff of an anchorwoman trained to take bad news, gradually wears down the soul behind it.

| May 18, 2017

The pinging psychological electrons give it a certain adult spark.

| May 18, 2017

The first thing, even the main thing, to be said about "The Commune" is that it's alive... [It] pulses with screwy energy and antic confusion. And a snake in the communal garden heightens the drama.

| May 18, 2017

Rather than portray a turbulent group dynamic, the film focuses on the marital woes of one particular couple, squandering its novel milieu on a banal conflict that would play out similarly in just about any context.

| Original Score: C+ | May 17, 2017

The connections - the stuff that will turn these individual moments into something resembling a unified cinematic experience - just aren't there.

| May 17, 2017

The Thomas Vinterberg film's sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 14, 2017

An intimate, bittersweet study of communal living drenched in the unfiltered weed smoke and wide-wale corduroy of 1970s Copenhagen.

| Original Score: B+ | May 11, 2017

The Commune may not rank with Vinterberg's most potent work (The Celebration, The Hunt), but as its lingering emotional impact attests, the film's simplicities are quite deceptive.

| May 5, 2017

Plot development gets B for banality, though A for acting goes to Trine Dyrholm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2016

Spritzes of humor skewer adults who are forgivably incompetent at managing their lives.

| Oct 20, 2016

Dyrholm's skill as an actor notwithstanding, this is a rather dispiriting trajectory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2016