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By the end, "Another Round" is a truly wonderful movie about trying to come to grips with life, anchored by terrific performances, infectious music, and a real understanding of the humming discontentment that all adults must learn to navigate in their own ways.

The cartoonish premise of Another Round remains within the realm of possibility almost solely thanks to the many close-ups on Mikkelsen’s features. His face can communicate myriad emotions with just the subtlest shifts, and Vinterberg wisely takes advantage of his leading man’s capabilities.

This is the kind of story you can imagine Hollywood getting wrong in any number of ways, but Vinterberg and Lindholm very precisely balance a clinical perspective with empathetic understanding and quite a bit of humor along the way.

[This] is one of the director’s most absorbing works. It soaks you up, and its melancholy (a shot of Martin, say, eating cereal on his own, in the semi-dark) is somehow less disturbing than its sprees.

Mikkelsen elevates what could have been another traditional message movie about living life to the fullest even after you think you’ve had your final drink... Even as the final act starts to get a bit manipulative by stretching some previously established realism, Mikkelsen holds it together, and then he comes out literally swinging in one of the best final scenes of the year.

It’s all a bit silly, and “Another Round” never really feels tethered to reality: The characters’ magical liquor-induced transformations are hard to believe, and their eventual downfalls too broadly etched. But Vinterberg’s delicate, grounded direction and the actors’ wonderfully loose performances insist upon authenticity, creating a tonal mishmash that’s endearingly absurd.

[While] very much about addiction, ["Another Round"] isn’t really an addiction drama. It’s a male midlife-crisis comedy in which drinking to excess is less a cause than a symptom of Martin’s funk — and sometimes, yes, a viable solution to it... [The film] not only acknowledges but also celebrates the life-giving buzz his characters experience with every swig of absinthe or Smirnoff.

"Another Round" doesn’t quite come across like a cautionary tale, and that’s because Vinterberg takes a refreshingly, well, sober stance on the entwined pleasures and pitfalls of drinking. He’s made the rare movie about getting shitfaced that’s somehow neither a wallow in the gutter nor a fantasy of life without hangovers.

Though Vinterberg doesn’t dismiss some of the very real consequences of his characters’ 180-proof experiment, it often falls on the actors to fill in the finer lines his antic script... dodges or leaps over. In that task he has no one better than Mikkelsen, whose sharp-planed bones and mournful gaze seem to contain multitudes, even in repose.

As a story of personality transformation, "Another Round" is virtuous and fun-loving, if a little anodyne... [Its] life-affirming conclusion, while agreeable and visually memorable, is emotionally inexact, tacked-on, and rings evasive in its incertitude and fantastical whimsy.

With the cracks of a crumbling marriage etched across his face, Mikkelsen is on typically top form in "Another Round." Along with his frequent co-writing partner Tobias Lindholm, [Vinterberg] is clearly at ease in the assembled company, just as there is something of a scotch-induced warm embrace to spending time with Martin and the gang.

Vinterberg’s goal isn’t to derail the merits of this experiment by wallowing in its inevitable risks. "Another Round" is a celebration of alcohol regardless of the nuance and drama that must be included once things spiral out of control.