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Headhunters; The Five-Year Engagement

Joe Morgenstern on the "smart, funny, scary, surprising" new Norwegian thriller, and  the "mirthless romcon" from the Judd Apatow laugh factory...

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By Joe Morgenstern • Apr 28, 2012 • 3m Listen

Headhunters is a sort of transgenre thriller that glides effortlessly from crisp social commentary through off-kilter comedy to paranoid and quite violent terror...

Sometime around what I guessed to be the one-hour mark in The Five-Year Engagement, I checked my watch and honestly thought the battery had given out...

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