Magnolia Pictures The Promised Land
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel · 2023
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.
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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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