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darkly
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
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The setpiece is brutally gruesome, darkly comic, and viscerally ambitious.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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