Headhunters

    Headhunters
    2011

    Synopsis

    An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

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    Cast

    • Aksel HennieRoger Brown
    • Synnøve Macody LundDiana Brown
    • Nikolaj Coster-WaldauClas Greve
    • Julie R. ØlgaardLotte
    • Kyrre Haugen SydnessLander
    • Valentina AlexeevaNatasja
    • Reidar SørensenBrede Sperre
    • Eivind SanderOve Kjikerud
    • Nils Jørgen KaalstadStig
    • Joachim RafaelsenBrugd

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Wall Street Journal

      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.
    • 90

      Wall Street Journal

      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.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      Headhunters' title rapidly turns literal, and what seemed like a lightweight heist thriller careens into a bloody-minded game of cat and mouse.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      Headhunters' title rapidly turns literal, and what seemed like a lightweight heist thriller careens into a bloody-minded game of cat and mouse.
    • 80

      Empire

      A slick thriller which takes place in a moral vacuum. It's fascinating rather than exciting, but makes for chilly thrills with two strong, charismatic lead performances, a great deal of style and amusingly repulsive, ruthless twists.
    • 80

      Total Film

      A nice blend of Scandinavian sophistication and Hollywood slickness, Headhunters is an entertaining Nordic noir achievement – and sure to be tagged as this year's "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."
    • 80

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      The compact Hennie is a wonderful actor, smoothly congenial when confident, uproarious when rattled. And he will be rattled-as well as stabbed, shorn, bitten, mangled, and worse.
    • 80

      Time Out

      Though the film wraps up its spinning-plates narrative a little too neatly, this is still a Scandi-noir to die for.

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