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Lords of Chaos

2018

Jonas Åkerlund

Sky Ferreira, Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer ...

6.2

2,163

Thriller. Drama. Horror A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1980s results in a very violent outcome.

	Author	Review
United States	Amy Nicholson Variety	"A pitch-perfect black metal dramedy (...) 'Lords of Chaos' is tremendous fun"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[Akerlund] never establishes a coherent or interesting point of view (...) All this soon sounds like a broken record at a party you’d like to leave."	NEG
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"What Culkin, Åkerlund and co. deliver is less a biopic than a horror movie. As the story of a band run amok, it's decent enough."	POS
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"From a morbid fascination standpoint, this story has everything: suicide, murder, satanism, church burnings... (...) Åkerlund’s commentary doesn’t go much deeper than simple contempt"	NEU
United States	Kory Grow Rolling Stone	"Åkerlund presents it all with an underlying antipathy toward the subject matter. It’s not fun. It’s not sad. A lot of the time, it’s not even all that interesting (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] provokes both awe and repulsion, but not necessarily admiration for a musical form and subculture unwaveringly devoted to literalism, no matter how extreme."	POS
United States	Kevin Jagernauth The Playlist	"Jonas Åkerlund’s approach is disappointingly distant and bemused (...) 'Lords Of Chaos' is more interested in the spectacle than the substance behind the true story"	NEG
United Kingdom	Nikki Baughan Screendaily	"Despite the film's inherent shock value, 'Lords Of Chaos' still manages to successfully mine the explosive psychology of adolescent angst - even if the horror movie aesthetics occasionally threatens to overwhelm proceedings."	NEU
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"The film favors cheap irony over insight (...) We’re treated to scene after directionless scene of guys sitting around talking about how evil they are (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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