The story is conventional, but at no time does it give off the stench of the old-fashioned. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 10, 2025

A costume drama based on the true story of a captain cultivating Danish moors despite many obstacles.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2025

For all its lapses in portraying romance, The Promised Land is still an inspiring, relentlessly gritty tale of one undying determination, an indomitable will to achieve the impossible against all odds.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 26, 2024

Terrific cinematography (Rasmus Videbaek) and utterly convincing production design (Jette Lehmann) mark this intimate epic.

| Original Score: B | Jul 5, 2024

Thrilling, shapely, pleasingly nasty epic, a ravishing Danish Western with savagery in its trim bones. Mads Mikkelsen is the sulk center screen, handsome visage made for melodrama... Pride kills; Mikkelsen thrills.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Arcel join forces again to tell a fantastic story of hardship and family in a time when nothing was assured.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Set against a background of high and wide vistas to the sound of roaring winds, a primal drama with impressive performances from Mikkelsen and the cast that offers another powerful foundation story for our time

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2024

There are times in the impressive Danish historical drama The Promised Land where Dr Lecter peeks from the eyes of the main character...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2024

The film hums along with a steady, well-judged momentum, underscored by a pot-boiling feeling that it’s arcing towards some big climactic event

| Jun 23, 2024

A romance, a critique of privilege and greed, a big sweeping drama with Mads Mikkelsen stoic, pained, selfish, loving, grizzled, and fierce… another brilliant slice of Denmark’s best.

| Jun 21, 2024

A conventionally entertaining historical drama more in line with the works of Kevin Costner than, say, Jean de Florette.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 21, 2024

A film that builds toward a rousing and romantic conclusion, capping the kind of sweeping, old-fashioned movie we don't see enough of anymore.

| Jun 20, 2024

Featuring some great cinematography, the film isn’t all that keen on subtlety, preferring to repeatedly hit us with emotional wallops that justify Kahlen’s crusade and his unflinching approach to dealing with violent adversaries.

| Original Score: 3.5/6 | Jun 20, 2024

Mads Mikkelsen’s meaningful looks mean business in a soil-tilling drama dug from Danish history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2024

This tale of taming barren land for the 18th century Royal Danish Court is more stoic western than a justification of exploitation. Indeed, it makes pointed observations about privilege, power, injustice and cruelty.

| Jun 20, 2024

Proof they can – and do – still make them (period dramas) like they used to (at least in Europe), this is one of the best reasons of the year so far to visit a cinema near you.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 19, 2024

… knows exactly when to let the shot linger in the moment to best capture the micro-expressions of Mikkelsen’s famously expressive features.

| Original Score: 18/20 | Jun 17, 2024

No new ground is broken, but the drama is nevertheless fertile in the absorbing, smart and consistently well-directed and -acted The Promised Land.

| Jun 3, 2024

In its interrogation of civilization versus barbarism, the film provides penetrating insight on the nature of true savagery.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 4, 2024

In “The Promised Land,” the countercultural twist is that when the gunslinger protects others’ family, he betrays and endangers himself.

| Mar 24, 2024