The Order · reception & legacy
2024 · Justin Kurzel
How The Order has been received, argued over, and remembered.
The arc
Premiered in competition at Venice 2024 to strong reviews, then got a quiet limited release from Vertical Entertainment — and almost immediately became the 'why did nobody see this?' thriller, steadily finding its audience through streaming and word of mouth.
What's debated
The recurring gripe is awards-shaped: film fans argue Jude Law gave one of his career-best performances and the film's total absence from the 2024 awards conversation proves the system is broken for mid-budget adult thrillers.
Its footprint
It lives in the culture as Exhibit A in the 'they don't make grown-up thrillers anymore — and when they do, they bury them' discourse, and as a chillingly timely film given its real-life white-supremacist subject matter.
Where it stands
A fast-forming cult of the under-seen: a Letterboxd 'trust me on this one' pick and a key tile in both Justin Kurzel's true-crime filmography and Nicholas Hoult's stacked 2024.