Noi Albinoi (2004) Critic Reviews

An impeccably made bleak comedy with an exactly calibrated, almost musical sense of timing, Nói is singular enough to have swept the Eddas, the Icelandic Academy Awards.Read the full review

Given the white-on-white color scheme, I didn't expect so many shades of feeling.Read the full review

The film's comic observations are rich, droll, and more than a little sad: Everyone in this isolated community seems beaten down by life. Read the full review

Paced a bit too glacially for my taste, yet it's worth sitting through for its trick ending, a twist of events as ominous as the landscape.Read the full review

Like a young director with serious aims, there is an earnest tone here that makes Noi Albinoi a success.Read the full review

An inspired mix of realism, humor and metaphor.Read the full review

A playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker. Read the full review

Only in the final minutes, when Kári overreaches for ironic effect, does the film plumb too far into the darkness.Read the full review

After a while the movie spins its wheels, unable to find much emotional traction in the icy bleakness. Read the full review