Four friends, all high school teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home, they embark on an audacious experiment: to see if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them find greater freedom and happiness.

We’re raising a glass to Mads Mikkelsen, an electric presence in this booze-sodden, Oscar®-winning ode to male friendship from Danish provocateur Thomas Vinterberg. A philosophical hymn to the joys—and regrets—of middle-age misbehaviour, Another Round is an existential comedy of bad manners. Skål!