“IN A Better World” demonstrates Danish director Susanne Bier’s supreme gift at telling the gloomiest of stories that, while not exactly winding up in feel-good territory, at least finish with a ...

Nothing on this earth loves -- or hates -- more fiercely than a child. Markus Rygaard, left, and William Johnk Nielsen in the Oscar-winning Danish film 'In a Better World.' Love and hate are at the ...

After a side trip to Hollywood to make the intense but misbegotten “Things We Lost in the Fire,” the Danish director Susanne Bier (“Open Hearts,” “Brothers”) returns home, where, working once again ...

How does a movie about two boys fighting back against a schoolyard bully in Denmark wind up in a refugee camp in Africa? By overreaching, badly. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign ...

The Danish drama “In a Better World,” which won this year’s Oscar for best foreign-language film, is a complex meditation on the subject of violence: How it simmers just beneath the surface of modern ...

Nothing on this earth loves — or hates — more fiercely than a child. Love and hate are at the crux of “In a Better World.” Also grief and guilt. And most especially violence. When is it time to turn ...

Considering the number of ethical dilemmas raised in the Danish melodrama In a Better World, I wish I could say I'd been left with more questions rattling around in my head than "What on Earth were ...

Most of the Danish movie In a Better World revolves around two boys, Elias (Markus Rygaard) and Christian (William Johnk Nielsen), whose disparate paths cross when Christian stands up for the ...

James McAvoy stars in the thriller Speak No Evil, and the concert film Usher: Rendezvous in Paris opens today. Check out all the films opening this weekend. Disney+ Canada is offering a limited time ...

Parallel stories, ostensibly set in Denmark and Africa but inhabiting every character arc (thus redoubling and diluting the story), mark director Susanne Bier’s latest examination of societal psyches.

Despite winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this is a rather melodramatic study of misplaced might that centres on the strained father-son relationships of divorced Swedish missionary doctor ...