60
Metascore
22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonTime Out LondonTom HuddlestonThe Commune may veer towards sentimentality in the final act...but overall this is a warm, sharply characterised and absorbing melodrama.
- 80Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramThe resulting drama offers a great showcase for Dyrholm, whose slide towards instability is the film’s core.
- 63Slant MagazineChristopher GraySlant MagazineChristopher GrayThe Thomas Vinterberg film's sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe lack of development in the supporting cast is a problem. Nothing, or almost nothing, of any consequence happens to these people. The title is a bit misleading: there is no real communal plot development.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Commune effortlessly entertains at a TV sitcom level, with its pithy dialogue, its chorus of thinly drawn caricatures and its cozy sense of mockery towards the failed social experiments of past generations. But as serious cinema, it feels limited for the same reasons.
- 58The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaThe Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaEnds up probing largely universal quandaries to lackluster results.
- 50The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangDespite presenting an environment enriched to weapons-grade plutonium levels with potential for interpersonal drama, Vinterberg can’t seem to find any.