It’s an imagination-starved redo of The Happening crossbred with a more malevolent strain of zombie-flick DNA.
The film can’t reconcile Ron Rash’s apocalyptic tenderness with its own eagerness to revel in romantic star allure.
There’s a great line in Jules and Jim about fictions that “revel in vice to preach virtue.”
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It seems as if Susanne Bier set out to create an absurdist comedy, but lost her nerve somewhere along the way.
Without its patronizing third-world sequences, In a Better World would have only been a somber, self-serious film about the ethics of violence.
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It resolves its thicket of mature moral questions in the most glib and banal means possible.
In a Better World exposes conflicts between cultures, countries, classes, and cohorts, and then promptly resolves them all.
With all the characters busily turning their lemons into lemonade, this film risks little and demands nothing from the viewer save tears of empathy.
Susanne Bier’s new film is beautifully performed by its eager cast.
Susanne Bier’s follow-up to Open Hearts is wonderfully acted but predictably plotted by Anders Thomas Jensen.
Susanne Biers crafts her familiar story with equal doses of austerity and sympathy.