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Remember that meme format about how “men will literally x instead of going to therapy”? That’s arguably the elevator pitch for
Riders of Justice, a spiky, sensitive, lewdly humorous, and sporadically violent meditation on obsession, vengeance, and statistical probability.
Mads Mikkelsen makes the perfect avatar of vengeance: a Danish military man, back from the war with blood on his hands and murder on his mind after his wife is killed in what seems to be an accident. Gaunt, obsessive, withdrawn, shaved of head and glassy of eye, his new quest for revenge finally allows him to channel his killing ways into his home life – a squaring of circles that he’s never managed before. Mikkelsen last worked with longtime creative partner and