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In a Better World
Directed by
Susanne Bier
R
2011
1h 58m
Drama
,
Romance
7.6
77%
86%
7.1
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The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
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Cast of In a Better World
Mikael Persbrandt
Anton
Trine Dyrholm
Marianne
Ulrich Thomsen
Claus
William Jøhnk Nielsen
Christian
Markus Rygaard
Elias
Martin Buch
Niels
Anette Støvelbæk
Hanne
Kim Bodnia
Lars
Tina Gylling Mortensen
Social Worker
Stig Hoffmeyer
Doctor
Camilla Bendix
Runner
Birthe Neumann
Doctor
Susanne Juhász
Nurse
Elsebeth Steentoft
Bodil Jørgensen
Wil Johnson
Eddy Kimani
Emily Mglaya
Gabriel Muli
Mary Hounu Moat
In a Better World Ratings & Reviews
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Kimber Myers
There's little flash or surprise in Bier's latest well-shot film, but plenty of substance.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Susanne Bier's latest meditation on grief and the boundaries of family -- which won this year's foreign-film Oscar -- is a tough piece of work, subtle in some ways, obvious in others, viscerally affecting throughout.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Simply put, this would be a better world if there were more films like In a Better World.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Despite some weaknesses as both a film and a parable, "In a Better World" is a potent provocation.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
An ethically ambitious, morally thoughtful - and deeply vexing - drama about the fragility of civil order and the menace of the lawless.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
There are no answers in her film, no intractable rights and wrongs. No characters are indicted for their mistakes or misjudgments, yet no one gets off scot-free either.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
I admire it almost purely for its performances and wish the story had the power to match what the actors are bringing to it.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
I hate to rap this serious-minded filmmaker, but I'm beginning to wonder whether her scripts aren't better realized when they're held in check, whether by Hollywood star power (Things We Lost in the Fire) or by the hand of another director (Open Hearts).
Boston Herald
Amy Amatangelo
High on the list of things I don't care to see in a movie is a teenage Nordic misfit making pipe bombs. Can you say "Village of the Damned" in Danish?
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I admired Bier's "Things We Lost in the Fire" and her Danish and American versions of "Brothers," but here her method is too foregrounded.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
In a Better World, Denmark's Oscar winner for best foreign-language film, boasts the kind of patiently constructed narrative that keeps you leaning forward and marveling at how all the pieces connect.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
[An] urgent and compassionate thriller about the vicious cycle of aggression and revenge.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The more its makers ... draw cheap contrasts between savagery and civility the less civil and more savage toward them you begin to feel.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Bier's well-meaning film isn't sterile, but she approaches the material from a distance. Perhaps that's by design, to make us observers, but the story cries out for more connection.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Despite its overweening tone of serioso realism, the movie exhibits little or no understanding of how real people actually behave.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Methodically paced and superbly staged to create a mounting sense of dread, "In a Better World" plays like a testosterone overdose by slow drip.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
How does a movie about two boys fighting back against a schoolyard bully in Denmark wind up in a refugee camp in Africa? By overreaching, badly.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Veers perilously close to the programmatic, ever more so as the plot proceeds, and there are scenes where we seem to be observing a moral demonstration as much as a drama; yet the movie does retain grip and grace...
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Bier has a sense of how everyday people get by in the real world, but maybe she's too forgiving of their faults and foibles. Sometimes a little harsh light is just what you need to see things clearly.
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Leonard Maltin
In a Better World triumphed against strong competition to win this year's Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film. Now that it's opening theatrically in the U.S. you can...
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