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Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Poppe’s way into the story – spending every second with one young woman as she navigates the carnage – is a moving testimony to the simple heroism that such events bring to the surface. Ultimately, it’s an homage to the very generation of young Norwegians who Breivik wanted to obliterate.
- 83The Film StageEd FranklThe Film StageEd FranklThis grueling, pulsating, in-your-face film–almost to a fault–has ferocious power, but it’s going to divide like a fissure.
- 83IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThe film has the power to make our bodies catch up with our hearts — the power to help us safely experience the kind of terror we need to remember in a way that makes it impossible for us to forget.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is an absorbing and moving tribute to the courage of the young victims of Utøya.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijFor this critic, the events in the home stretch finally feel too much like concessions to the necessities of the laws of fictional drama, with first an unexpected twist followed by a melodramatic one.
- 40The Observer (UK)Simran HansThe Observer (UK)Simran HansThis harrowing retelling of Norwegian rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik’s 2011 terrorist attack on the island of Utøya is less exploitative than Paul Greengrass’s brutal, Netflix-bound, English-language version, but the question remains: does a tragedy have to be turned into cinema for people to engage with it?