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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsAgainst the Ice delivers all the delirious period drama thrills and survival horror angst that you could want from a movie with that title.
- 60The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeAgainst the Ice is a Danish story flattened for a global audience.
- 50Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganA soft-edged, stolid blend of gorgeous geographical authenticity with a global-facing English-speaking cast whose accents range from Joe Cole’s Brit to co-producer, co-writer and leading man Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s mid-Atlantic purr.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreVeteran Danish director Peter Flinth (“Beatles” and “Nobel’s Last Will” were his) delivers a film that feels approved by its co-writer and star in terms of thoroughness, but that lumbers as it passes from one waypoint to the next in the standard “alone in the Arctic” narrative.
- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichForget “The Terror,” here comes “The Tedium.”
- 40The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyIn the end, the most remarkable thing about Against the Ice is that a real-life story of two men at the mercy of the unforgiving elements, of hunger and illness, possible attack and encroaching madness, can be so curiously deprived of tension.
- 40VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangTo reduce a titanic struggle for survival in one of the most inhospitable climes on earth to such by-the-numbers drama is in many ways akin to standing on a jagged frozen peak, gazing across blizzard-assailed permafrost plains to crumbling white cliffs and ice shelfs beyond and thinking “Snow.”
- 40The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaThe New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaIt’s perfectly formulaic.