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By Antonia Quirke (220) for Financial Times (1,822) on 08 May 2013

Calmly made but ultimately lacerating…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for Guardian (4,584) on 08 May 2013

Danish director Tobias Lindholm spins an exacting drama out of a crisis on this deft, verite-style account of Somali piracy in the Indian ocean…

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By Jennifer Tate (101) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 08 May 2013

Nail-bitingly intense, thanks to some powerful performances and Tobias Lindholm's strong direction and fantastic script…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 08 May 2013

Eschewing hard boiled action for an authentically gritty approach, director Tobias Lindholm creates a fuggy atmosphere of claustrophobic dread…

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By Michael Leader (59) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 08 May 2013

Harrowing. A Hijacking may last only a shade under 100 minutes, but the memory, like the captives' trauma, will last much longer…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 08 May 2013

Flies buzz, sweat trickles, negotiations continue, and you feel your breath dry up…

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By Lisa Giles-Keddie (242) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 08 May 2013

What keeps things stimulating ... is a genuine sense of reality and how much of your own perception is invested in what you are watching…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out (7,510) on 07 May 2013

A Hijacking’ is gripping in the way the best Danish TV is – in its no-frills authenticity…

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By Philip Concannon (108) for The Skinny (809) on 07 May 2013

When the credits roll, you may feel as if you too have been released from captivity…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Film4 (1,522) on 07 May 2013

The considerable tensions of A Hijacking derive not from melodrama, heroics or triumphalism, but rather from the very lack of these…

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By Angie Errigo (463) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 04 May 2013

A slow burner; intense, utterly engrossing and believable…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 21 Apr 2013

A Hijacking tells its tale as plainly as its title, without Hollywood action, without true heroes or villains, without the expected emotional…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 20 Mar 2013

A poignant and powerful drama about the hijacking of a Danish cargo ship and its seven member crew by Somali pirates…

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By Niki Boyle (42) for The List (2,018) on 26 Feb 2013

Lindholm could arguably be praised for succeeding in making the audience experience his characters, but a more stringent editor would have…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 16 Sep 2012

This sharp psychological drama should serve as a calling card for the lean-and-mean director Tobias Lindholm…

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