‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Star Viola Prettejohn on Standing Ovation Tears and Why She’d Follow Amanda Seyfried to the Promised Land: ‘She’s Quite Entrancing!’

Viola Prettejohn discusses The Testament of Ann Lee, the standing ovation in Venice and why she'd follow Amanda Seyfried to ...
Boston Herald

‘The Promised Land’ delivers epic Nordic Western

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, ...
Los Angeles Times

In Denmark’s ‘The Promised Land,’ the virtues of an old-school western still blaze

Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land” is aptly titled. Adapted from the 2020 novel “The Captain and Ann Barbara,” by Ida Jessen, the land itself — the untamed heath of Jutland, the peninsula that makes ...
Christianity Today

‘The Office’ Meets Exodus in ‘The Promised Land’

The director of the YouTube series spoke with CT about making a funny show based on Scripture. Moses (The Chosen’s Wasim No’mani) is worn down by the Israelites’ petty complaints. His resentful sister ...
The Washington Post

‘The Promised Land’: A portrait of human will, with gravitas

Nikolaj Arcel’s adaptation of Ida Jessen’s novel looks terrific but loses its footing Mads Mikkelsen brings singular, unsmiling focus to his portrayal of a Danish pioneer in “The Promised Land,” a ...
TheWrap

‘The Promised Land’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen Needs a Little Help in Bold Danish Drama

After the first minute of “The Promised Land,” Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s period epic set in 18th-century Denmark, we know two things. We know “the heath cannot be tamed” because the opening ...