Kærlighed på film 2007

Stephen Holden, New York Times: As Just Another Love Story zigzags between austere realism (the scenes of Jonas and his family) and surreal gore, you have the not unpleasant sense of being taken for a ride. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: [Bornedal] steers his mistaken-identity story in a more generic direction. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Just Another Love Story is enjoyably moody in the early going, and it develops into a decent Hitchcockian thriller at times. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's good, nasty fun until it gets boxed in by its own contrivances toward the end. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: I suspect anyone who went for last year's foreign-language pulp fiction of choice, Tell No One, will be rewarded by Ole Bornedal's latest. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: A creative mix of horror, noir and psychological thriller. At times the story defies logic, but viewers who can accept that will find themselves caught up in the film's intensity. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's interesting that two of the best thrillers of the last several months, Tell No One and Just Another Love Story, have come from Europe. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Beneath all the dazzling cinematography, propulsive score and overcommitted acting, I found this movie an affecting, mordant comedy about male midlife crisis in its most extreme form. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: You can see this Danish offering as a sardonic update of familiar noir material, or simply as the story of the midlife crisis of a guy who wishes -- or dreams, or dreads -- that he's living out a grand drama. There are pleasures to be had either way. Read more

Anna King, Time Out: [Director] Bornedal injects plenty of gallows humor to keep things light, and a fair amount of bloody, full-frontal nudity to maintain just the right quotient of queasiness. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: Ambitious cross-cutting and occasional bursts of strident music hint at psychologically complex parallels and readings that the film fails to deliver. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Contrived excess is rarely as entertaining as it is in the ironically titled Just Another Love Story, a furiously overheated romantic thriller from Danish writer-helmer Ole Bornedal. Read more

Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice: Bertelsen's puffy sheepishness isn't involving enough to distract from the routine plot perforations. Read more