Von Trier has mutilated his own film, turning it into a crazy, hysterical work that alienates the audience with its infantile shock tactics and tedious transgressions.
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07/28/09
Antichrist (2009)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:7
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Gruesome, explicit and highly controversial; Lars Von Triers arthouse-horror, though beautifully shot, is no easy ride.
Rated: 18
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:24-07-2009
Synopsis: Only two actors, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Defoe, inhabit the space of this supernatural thriller directed by Lars Von Trier. The stars play a couple who attempt to grieve for their dead... [More]
Reviews for Antichrist
1 - 12 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticWe can scoff and dismiss it as the last gasp ravings of a deranged opportunist. Or we can look, unflinchingly, at Von Trier’s fantastically painful mirror and acknowledge the Id within us all. Now that is scary.
07/24/09
Top CriticAntichrist is a smirking contraption of a film, a cheeky, nasty, clever device for making us upset about the dead kid, making us scared at the creepy happenings, making us freaked out at the violence, and finally making us convulsed with liberal outrage.
07/24/09
Top CriticA beautiful battery of depraved images and irrational associations, Lars Von Trier's two-handed essay in horror is as distracting and deadening as depression itself.
07/16/09
Top CriticThis is cinema at its most extreme and mind-boggling.
05/18/09
Top CriticA troubling but refreshing sense of an artist uncloaked. A violent conflict of ideas and images. Any satisfaction from loose ends tied and questions answered? Forget it. It’s just not that sort of film.
05/18/09
Top CriticGiven how desperate to shock the film is, it’s surprising that long swathes of it are so turgidly dull.
05/18/09
Top CriticWhat Lars is driving at is something completely bizarre, massively uncommercial and strangely perfect.
05/18/09
Top CriticThe scandal of Antichrist is not that it is grisly or upsetting but that it is so ponderous, so conceptually thin and so dull.
10/23/09
Top CriticVon Trier, who has always been a provocateur, is driven to confront and shake his audience more than any other serious filmmaker -- even Bunuel and Herzog.
10/22/09
Top CriticVisually gorgeous to a fault and teeming with grandiose if often fascinating ideas that overwhelm the modest story that serves as their vehicle, this may be the least artistically successful film von Trier has ever made.
05/18/09
Top CriticLars von Trier cuts a big fat art-film fart with "Antichrist." As if deliberately courting critical abuse, the Danish bad boy densely packs this theological-psychological horror opus with grotesque, self-consciously provocative images.
05/18/09
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