Another marvelous 2023 leftover, Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land,” Denmark’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar, has everything you want in an epic film: struggle, romance, period detail, ...

In its opening moments, there's something of early Werner Herzog about The Promised Land (Bastarden), writer-director Nikolaj Arcel's retelling of a true-life act of monumental masculine hubris in the ...

The new film "The Promised Land" may have the feel of a Western for many Americans - long, empty vistas, rocky soil, new arrivals struggling to make a living and a forbidding and often lawless place.

You do not fuck with Mads Mikkelsen. There are a number of takeaways to be had from The Promised Land, the excellent prestige drama-cum-bloody payback flick straight outta Denmark. The rich in 18th ...

Danish director Nikolaj Arcel admits he was surprised the first time someone referred to “The Promised Land,” his new film starring Mads Mikkelsen, as a Nordic Western. “I didn’t make out or intend to ...