The Order
critic Reviews
, 92% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- A stoic Jude Law and diabolically good Nicholas Hoult turn the tides of history in this grippingly intense thrill ride.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreChristy LemireFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
It feels like a time capsule but is extremely relevant today.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDanny LeighFinancial Times
And yet here, as in Kurzel’s other work, you rarely see actual violence. The horror is what lurks inside the characters, the stifling air of rooms where something is rotten.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMark KermodeKermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Nicolas Hoult is very, very good as this amiable fascist...
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreWendy IdeObserver (UK)
There are episodes of muscular, tautly directed action but the overall tone is brooding melancholy, all of it accompanied by a fretful, moaning wind and an eerie score.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePeter BradshawGuardian
Kurzel contrives a solid, vehement film, with Law and Hoult proving to be interestingly cast... But this isn’t Kurzel’s best work; it feels like something for streaming TV rather than the big screen.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreBen KenigsbergNew York Times
But the movie is more effective as a grim, involving cop thriller than it is as an ostensible statement on the Order’s reverberations in the present.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePedro GallegoEspinof
Kurtzel expands a series of moral greys without losing the vileness of the supremacists, incredibly elevating a proposal that is already thrilling and powerful in itself, thanks to how he executes the suspense and action. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRichard CrouseRichard Crouse
In many ways The Order is a run-of-the-mill police procedural about two men on opposite sides of the law, but it keeps the action taut enough, and the violence visceral enough, to make up for the more familiar elements.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreSusan GrangerSSG Syndicate
What makes this crime thriller timely is that many considered the concept of a neo-Nazi movement with tacit presidential approval just a fantasy until 1/6/2021 - when Capitol rioters waved copies of 'The Turner Diaries' - and Donald Trump was reelected.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreFilipe FreitasAlways Good Movies
Visually unremarkable and interspersed with bursts of repetitive action, The Order distinguishes itself through its compelling emphasis on character.
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