Quartile rating: 8/10 · 1 rating
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Adam's Apples is a darkly comic Danish gem from Anders Thomas Jensen that earns high marks for its audacious, theologically charged plot — a Job-like parable wrapped in pitch-black comedy — and for its remarkable performances, particularly Mads Mikkelsen's achingly sincere priest and Ulrich Thomsen's neo-nazi protagonist. The film's central conceit of radical, delusional optimism versus cynical nihilism is genuinely novel and executed with a singular voice that sets it apart from any comparable film. Cinematography is competent but functional rather than visually distinguished. The ending, while thematically appropriate and emotionally resonant, wraps things up in a way that feels slightly too neat given the film's otherwise gleefully unsettling tone.