Another Round

"New Zealand’s binge-drinking culture has many downsides, but perhaps one of its rare benefits is that local audiences seeing Another Round may bring with them a similar attitude to alcohol as that demonstrated onscreen by heavy-drinking Danes. “This entire country drinks like maniacs!” a character exclaims at one point—to which Kiwis may opt to shrug “hold my beer”."

"Mikkelsen is magnificent..."

"The film’s sloppy broadness ends up fighting the Dogme style, which keeps telling us that these people are authentic."

"The performances are persuasive and watchable, especially Mikkelsen..."

"Has little fresh or profound to say about intoxication and addiction, but it is an engaging tribute to friendship, family and bacchanalian hedonism in moderation."

"It’s a sweet, strangely modest tragicomedy about the pleasures of (mostly banal) excess."

"A parable about breaking a social contract."

"The actor does what only true stars seem able to: Take the silly or messy or improbable, and make it fly."

"The rare movie about getting shitfaced that’s somehow neither a wallow in the gutter nor a fantasy of life without hangovers."

"A funny film which is also desperately sad, a superficially amusing indictment of drinking culture which is much more bitter than sweet."

"It sings, and it sparkles."

"A stinging, gorgeously filmed tragicomedy about male insecurity and the power of positive drinking."

"It isn’t prescriptive about drinking, and doesn’t seek to impart any message other than that life is hard, and sometimes dark, and sometimes ecstatically beautiful."