For years, Hollywood has presented stories based on the bible as epic, larger-than-life events. They’ve often been overly serious, occasionally dull, and rarely relatable. (Anyone remember the NBC ...

Mads Mikkelsen delivers a magnificent performance that brings life to a grim historical epic set in a familiarly harsh world. The film explores the flaws and complexities of its real-life protagonist, ...

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

Mads Mikkelsen brings singular, unsmiling focus to his portrayal of a Danish pioneer in “The Promised Land,” a movie in which — its title notwithstanding — nothing is guaranteed. In 1755 Copenhagen, ...

The first season of The Promised Land was a boldly satirical reimagination of the well-known Biblical story of Moses. It was The Chosen assistant director Mitch Hudson who came up with the idea to ...

The Promised Land (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Nikolaj Arcel, written by Anders Thomas Jensen, Ida Jessen and Nikolaj Arcel and starring Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Gustav Lindh, Melina ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel about his latest movie, "The Promised Land," a historical drama set in the Jutland peninsula. The new film "The Promised Land" may have the ...

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, ...

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