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The Promised Land

Directed by Nikolaj Arcel · 2023

Quick Verdict

The Promised Land (2023) has a 84% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

84%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

97% Critic Score
95% Audience
77 Metascore
★★★½☆ Letterboxd 3.8
7.7 IMDb /10
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Runtime
2h 40m

Is The Promised Land worth watching?

Yes — The Promised Land earns a 84% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

Mads Mikkelsen anchors this handsomely mounted period saga with a performance of quiet, weathered resolve, and Nikolaj Arcel stages the frontier brutality with the sweep of a classic Western transplanted to the Danish heath.

Celluloid Critics Consensus

Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.

What is The Promised Land about?

In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) -- a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero -- sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable...

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