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Another Round Review – Cheers to a Sobering Experience Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud came up with a theory that humanity was born with a 0.05% deficit in alcohol in their blood. Thus, to find a kind of physiological balance, a person should drink enough alcohol to make up for that proposed absence. In Another Round, four middle-aged friends decide to test Skårderud’s hypothesis as a way to help improve their lives because to them, there’s more to gain from this experiment than there is to lose. That’s just how stale their lives are. As you can imagine, the film begins as a...

Updated: 5:52 PM CST December 14, 2020 ST. LOUIS — The ageless question still stands tall. Does drinking alcohol make you a more fun person to be around? It's a theory that four middle-aged friends put to the test in Thomas Vinterberg's "Another Round," an uproarious and quite joyous celebration of life and all it has to offer. Martin (Mads Mikkelson, working in top gear here) has a beautiful wife and two kids, but feels hollow enough to ask his wife if he has become boring to his family. Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen) loves teaching young kids how to play soccer, but the daily do...

Save this story for later. The latest film from the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, “Another Round,” marks the second occasion on which he has teamed up with his countryman Mads Mikkelsen. In “The Hunt” (2012), Mikkelsen played a kindergarten teacher who is wrongly accused of being a pedophile. In the new movie, he plays Martin, a high-school history teacher who is accused, correctly, of being an alcoholic. Note that both protagonists (it’s hard to call them heroes) are in positions of civic responsibility, from which they slide: our two-bit modern answer to the ki...

CST_ Samuel Goldwyn Films presents a film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and written by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm. No MPAA rating. Running time: 116 minutes. In Danish with English subtitles. Available now at musicboxathome.com and siskelfilmcenter.org and, starting Dec. 18, on demand. So begins Thomas Vinterberg’s audaciously provocative and wickedly funny Danish comedy/drama “Another Round,” featuring the versatile Mads Mikkelsen (“Casino Royale,” “Hannibal”), he of the chiseled face and often startling intensity, in one of the best performances of his career. Mikkelsen�...