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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatPete Vonder HaarFilm ThreatPete Vonder HaarWhen the most sympathetic character in your comedy is a skinhead, you’re definitely on to something, and Jensen definitely is here.
- 80VarietyVarietyA funny, politically incorrect and, somewhere deep down, thoughtful black comedy, Adam's Apples is the third and final film in helmer-writer Anders Thomas Jensen's excellent trilogy centered on oddballs and misfits in Denmark.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJensen tarnishes the lining of every cloud in one wickedly funny scene after another.
- 63Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThe movie is one long pose. But it develops into an idea slightly greater than its flippancy. The steady frenzy is whipped into a roux of two reasonably developed characters.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe melodramas that prolific Anders Thomas Jensen has sculpted over the years have been among the richest works to come out of Scandinavia since Bergman's heyday. But no road is without its pockmarks and Adam's Apples may be the low point of the wunderkind's career.
- Smart-aleck comedy and spirituality aren't incompatible, but in Adam's Apples they cancel each other out.
- 30L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasSome will see this as a movie about how we're all God’s children. I saw only the misanthropic fulminations of Jensen's runaway ego.
- The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice.
- 25New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe characters are too cliched to be funny, and Jensen's script can't stay focused long enough to make an impression. Where is Lars von Trier when we need him?