The Order - Movie Reviews (2024)

The film works better when tension is ratcheted up, and the cat-and-mouse games are shown in action. Naturally, the subject it’s tackling is enraging as well, but enough moving pieces are at play to make what works hit in effectively dangerous ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2024

A spellbinding, taut and gritty crime thriller. It's the most exhilarating crime thrillers since Hell or High Water, and the most chilling and provocative one since Arlington Road.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2024

It’s a hell of an action movie, the kind of film where you see in the credits that 'Green Room' director Jeremy Saulnier was an Executive Producer and you think, 'Ah, yeah, that makes sense.'

Full Review | Nov 13, 2024

"The Order" is a deeply satisfying cat-and-mouse narrative. The script locks itself to the time period, allowing the audience to relax and enjoy the proceedings before revealing the ongoing legacy of the splinter group in the movie’s chilling conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2024

The Order is a powerful film that thrives on Jude Law’s and Nicholas Hoult’s performances, which are the best of their careers. An extraordinary amount of relentless intensity and obsession fuels each turn

Full Review | Original Score: A | Nov 4, 2024

Justin Kurzel's The Order is hands down the best action movie of 2024.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 2, 2024

The Order may not be as unsettling as Nitram, yet it does manage to subvert the familiar aspects of the thriller genre by forcing the audience to sit with the prominence of Nazism in our modern world.

Full Review | Oct 31, 2024

The Order is an undeveloped thriller that shies away from the timely subject matter that justifies its existence.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2024

For Kurzel, this is the best mainstream film he’s done in his career.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2024

A neo-western crime thriller serving up in this order, cult personality over politics. Rather than decisive illumination as to where this country is headed politically - a government with its own support of neo-nazis abroad militarily in the here and now.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2024

Hard to take your eyes off the screen. Compelling crime/thriller filmmaking gets the job done.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2024

A meaningful action film that echoes today’s divisive identity.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 27, 2024

The Order is a tense crime thriller that’s more fascinating whenever it’s exploring the sinister methods of extremist white supremacists than it is as a decent but largely conventional law procedural.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Jude Law dominates in this gripping thriller that sometimes struggles to keep its eye on the prize.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 15, 2024

The Order is a sturdily built historical action procedural.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2024

It's a well-crafted, suspenseful, action-packed film that hits all the right spots.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2024

With great performances, a taut script, and an execution an order of magnitude better than Kurzel’s previous films, The Order provides a chilling yet compelling look into the past—and the same forces shaping our present.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.3/10 | Sep 11, 2024

...a briskly-paced thriller that’s been suffused with a host of compelling, attention-grabbing attributes and elements...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 11, 2024

Kurzel delivers a glossy police thriller that warns viewers of ultra-conservative fanaticism in Trump's America. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2024

Achilling slice of historical memory in the ways it studies one of the earliest iterations of the version of white nationalism currently insinuating itself into American politics — and its haunting understanding of the insidious creep of such beliefs.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 10, 2024