The Commune(Kollektivet)

Slant Magazine by Christopher Gray

The Thomas Vinterberg film's sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.

The Film Stage by Giovanni Marchini Camia

Ends up probing largely universal quandaries to lackluster results.

Variety by Guy Lodge

For Vinterberg, this uneven but nonetheless absorbing pic at least marks a return to characteristically bristly territory.

Total Film by James Mottram

The resulting drama offers a great showcase for Dyrholm, whose slide towards instability is the film’s core.

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

Despite presenting an environment enriched to weapons-grade plutonium levels with potential for interpersonal drama, Vinterberg can’t seem to find any.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

The lack of development in the supporting cast is a problem. Nothing, or almost nothing, of any consequence happens to these people. The title is a bit misleading: there is no real communal plot development.

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton

The Commune effortlessly entertains at a TV sitcom level, with its pithy dialogue, its chorus of thinly drawn caricatures and its cozy sense of mockery towards the failed social experiments of past generations. But as serious cinema, it feels limited for the same reasons.

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

The Commune doesn’t openly stumble so much as constrict itself awkwardly inside its main love triangle, short-changing the terrific supporting cast, and nearly forgetting what we thought it was all about.

Time Out London by Tom Huddleston

The Commune may veer towards sentimentality in the final act...but overall this is a warm, sharply characterised and absorbing melodrama.

Screen International by Wendy Ide

The film is a patchwork portrait that combines the joys and irritations, the petty arguments and the homespun warmth of this environment.