Plot: In 1974, a young Icelandic girl met a grim fate at the hands of a murderer -- and the crime was never solved. So begins celebrated director Baltasar Kormákur's procedural thriller Jar City (or Mýrin), adapted from Icelandic writer Arnaldur ... Read More
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Iceland has a more robust film industry than you might expect from a small island nation of only 320,000 people, but still, it ain't exactly Hollywood. So when an Icelandic film gains worldwide attention, it's newsworthy. Such is the case with Jar City,...
Good news for fans of Icelandic cinema: IFC has picked up the cop thriller Jar City in what is apparently the first buy of this year's Toronto International Film Festival. (Variety calls it the 'first official buy'; The Hollywood Reporter calls it 'one of...
Released in its native Iceland last fall, Jar City has been drawing an increasing amount of acclaim as it screens its way around the globe. To begin with, the thriller smashed box office records at home, where it's been estimated that as many as one in...
Last weekend, Nash Edgerton's terrific, pitch-black, whip-smart crime noir The Square snaked its way through limited release in a few fortunate cities throughout the country. The movie is the feature directorial debut of the veteran Aussie actor and...
