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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 28 Jan 2022

There’s nothing particularly surprising about the story, but Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen finds a way to make an old tale feel new…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 27 Jan 2022

For those with a hunger for surprising, affecting films, I say seek this one out by all means. Mr…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 26 Jan 2022

Adapting Rosa Liksom’s novel of the same name, Kuosmanen has moved the book from the ’80s to the ’90s and lost some of the story’s…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Jan 2022

Part of what makes Compartment No. 6 engrossing and effective is how Kuosmanen plays with tone…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 25 Jan 2022

An observation that when you’re running away, it doesn’t matter where you’re running to as much as it matters where you’re running…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 25 Jan 2022

The movie sinks, fast and deep, under the weight of dramatic shortcuts, overemphatic details, undercooked possibilities, unconsidered implications…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 Nov 2021

In stripping genre ornamentation away to get to what brings people together in stark, lonely, and in this case, mighty cold circumstances,…

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By Andy Howell (33) for Film Threat (5,156) on 20 Sep 2021

Director Juho Kuosmanen excels in telling a story that seems entirely believable and realistic, never forced or predictable…

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By Aparita Bhandari (53) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 11 Sep 2021

Russia’s stark landscape makes for breathtaking and sometimes comical scenes. This is a trip well worth taking…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Aug 2021

Juho Kuosmanen’s film interestingly thrives off of an ironic juxtaposition of character and environment…

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By Alistair Ryder (351) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Jul 2021

Kuosmanen has crafted a drama within a clearly defined moment in recent history, only to refuse to be tied to it…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Jul 2021

The performances, the writing and the direction all conspire to make it feel fresh and specific, and as bleak as the settings may be, it has…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jul 2021

The humdrum and heartswelling Compartment No…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Jul 2021

Despite the bone-chilling cold of its location in Murmansk in Russia’s remote north-west, there’s a wonderful human warmth and humour in…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Jul 2021

As dour as it often seems with its reek of stale booze and cigarette smoke, there’s joy here for patient audiences willing to find it, and…

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By Elena Lazic (92) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Jul 2021

Compartment No.6 is at its best when it unveils the gap between its characters’ true identities and the parts that they choose to play…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 12 Jul 2021

Compartment No. 6 is something of a minimalist shaggy dog story, ending on a bittersweet low-key note…

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