Headhunters
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72 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

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  • Starring: Aksel Hennie, Julie R. Ølgaard, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund
  • Summary: Headhunters stars the talented Aksel Hennie as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway's most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to get his hands on it, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man. (Magnolia Pictures)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 20 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 26
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Apr 26, 2012
    90
    Headhunters is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities.
  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    Apr 26, 2012
    90
    A transgenre thriller that glides effortlessly from crisp social commentary through off-kilter comedy to paranoid terror, it's on my short list of the most enjoyable movies in recent memory.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    Apr 24, 2012
    60
    Plenty of twisty scripting makes the queasy damage seem conceptually neat and tidy, as if that's a good idea, but what we need here is a little more meat.

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  1. GlobeTheatre
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This was a fine movie. Liked everything in it; the direction, the script, the characters, the visual side of the movie... Everything was fine. I liked it.… Expand
  2. damonhatefi
    10
    The most intense, exciting and well-made movie I have seen in YEARS! Probably the best EVER in it's genre!! A must see for anyone and everyone, take all your friends!!!… Expand
  3. Dongangstar
    10
    What a great movie. I guess this will be the Norwegian entry for the Academy Awards. Very good story, fast, intelligent, very good lead actor, wonderful performances in general. Sure it's all about that special thing in the motion picture industry, I guess this Director has just built his ..., it starts with an 'r' ;)… Expand

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