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Weekend Film Reviews

Headhunters; The Five-Year Engagement

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Apr. 27, 2012 Entertainment
Joe Morgenstern on the "smart, funny, scary, surprising" new Norwegian thriller, and  the "mirthless romcon" from the Judd Apatow laugh factory...

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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Joe Morgenstern

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