NY Timeout: Icy as Daniel Craig was in Casino Royale, you still had to give it up for the dude playing Le Chiffre, coolly wiping away tears of blood as he doubled down at the poker table. That actor’s name is Mads Mikkelsen; in his native Denmark, he’s already an icon. And with this week’s hilariously somber Valhalla Rising—a hypnotic acid trip of a Viking misadventure—Mikkelsen’s stateside fans will finally get a sense of his full physical brio.
Final Destination is a reminder of our mortality.
‘It Follows’ still lurks.
The Parenting Review: It starts off as a fun horror-comedy with a great cast, but loses its charm halfway through. The laughs fade, the scares feel predictable, and by the end, it’s just another forgettable haunted house story.
