There's a great range of narrative in this movie, but the ending is lopped off to the point where I don't think there will be anyone who isn't confused by it.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2021

It doesn't end -- it stops... It's as though the two-and-a-half hours you've invested were a complete waste.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2021

How do you reconcile major differences, like party affiliations, within a family? Into the Darkness serves as a keen portrait of a deeply divided country, unsure of where its allegiance lies.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 23, 2021

Too cluttered, disjointed and ultimately inconclusive to register much of an emotional impact.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 22, 2021

Bolstered by strong performances, this World War II melodrama overcomes some stuffy period trappings.

Full Review | May 22, 2021

It's interesting to see this side of history and where neutral countries' loyalties lay, how the moral fabric of Denmark was nearly destroyed and concessions made against better judgment and moral standards.

Full Review | May 21, 2021

[T]he story is more wartime melodrama than historical drama or political character study.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2021

You'd think this chapter in Danish history would inspire passion in a native filmmaker, but the movie lacks fervency.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2021

This is not Luchino Visconti's "The Damned," which turned a similar premise into a nearly unwatchable miasma of grotesquerie. But neither is "Into the Darkness" more than watchable.

Full Review | May 20, 2021

Instead of caring about where this family ends up when the dust settles, [this film] seeks to highlight the complexities inherent to breathing that dust in without reprieve.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 19, 2021

Considers the ethics of producing for the enemy.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | May 16, 2021

It's a Danish "Downton Abbey," with just as much money...shooting and sabotage...actual life and death stakes to be dealt with every day with the enemy right at their door, and sometimes invited in for dinner and cocktails.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2021

Unfortunately the script doesn't translate to dynamic filmmaking; the movie plays like a familiar, period drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2021

While the performances are unquestionably robust, this verbose and overlong saga would have been better as a TV series.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2021

As you watch, there is a shivery sense of a nation reckoning with its past. For international viewers, it's perhaps a little less resonant, but engrossing nonetheless.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2021

If you have 152 minutes to sink into this morass of moral complexity and finely observed period detail, then it may well be worth it, although the ending is bizarrely, perplexingly abrupt.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2021

The strength and weakness of Into the Darkness comes from a willingness to let events slowly unfold.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2021

An over-stuffed, frenetically busy, hugely talkative, but always watchable and engaging yarn about one family's fortunes of war.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2020