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Movie Info

Genre:

mystery and thriller
Original Language:

Danish
Director:

Jesper W. Nielsen
Producer:

Marcella L. Dichmann, Mille Bjørke, Miriam Nørgaard
Runtime:

1h 57m
Production Co:

Fridthjof Film

Cast & Crew

Danica Curcic
Iben

Amanda Collin
Malene

Sidse Babett Knudsen
Anne-Lise

Lene Maria Christensen
Camilla

Magnus Krepper
Gunnar

Olaf Johannesen
Poul

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Critic Reviews for The Exception

All Critics (12) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (7)

It's preposterous, yes, but so smartly done.

January 26, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
Throughout the film I had the niggling feeling that at the bottom of it is a deep dislike of women -- or, at the very least, a total lack of understanding.

January 21, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Cath Clarke
Guardian
A Danish drama/thriller about degrees of bullying and the impact people can have on each other. Plenty to admire and plenty to think about, but the writing in some scenes lets it down badly.

February 18, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alix Turner
Ready Steady Cut
Nielsen's film leaves a rather underwhelming taste on the tongue. The final minutes, however intricately plotted, however neatly tied to an earlier throwaway moment, ultimately fall back into familiar genre territory.

February 6, 2021 | Full Review…

George Nash
Flickering Myth
The provocative ways these characters react raise some issues to think about. So it's a shame that neither Nielsen's direction nor Torpe's script allows a female perspective to emerge, essentially defining everything through the eyes of the men.

January 29, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
The Exception follows a few familiar tropes and leans a little too much on basic philosophical understandings to create intrigue around its ideas of evil - but still, it's gripping stuff.

January 29, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Ella Kemp
NME
Not a great movie, then, but there's something fun about watching an earnest Scandi drama go crazy.

January 26, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)
The Exception is undone in an incongruously violent third act that seeks the fastest rather than the most satisfying answers. Nonetheless, it is a compelling thriller that grapples with how trauma metastasizes in the body and mind.

January 25, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Carmen Paddock
One Room With A View
The film tries hard to conflate office politics with the psychology of genocide, but it's a conceit that feels too self-conscious to work and it all starts getting a bit silly - a fatal blow for any thriller.

January 23, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Brian Viner
Daily Mail (UK)
Nonsensical Danish thriller concocts absurd connections between the nature of evil and *checks notes* office politics among shallow clichés of women. Preposterously, this is not meant to be satire.

January 22, 2021 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher
The tone is rather flat, the colour of the piece less noir than beige.

January 22, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film
Though the film is quite absorbing when functioning as a kind of a modern-day riff on Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1943 masterpiece Le Corbeau, it can't sustain the air of unease and an ill-judged action-packed finale is riven with nonsensical plot turns.

January 21, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alistair Harkness
Scotsman