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10/26/09
Antichrist (2009)
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Reviews Counted:125
Fresh:62
Rotten:63
Average Rating:5.4/10
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
The film's incoherence breaks von Trier's trademark wave of sensibility into something lesser, something all too easily understood.
10/25/09
A psychologically horrifying, fascinating and emotionally devastating experience that should be studied, analyzed and discussed scene-for-scene by film buffs for its brilliant, stylish production values, allegories and allusions.
10/24/09
The craft on display here is stunning...and the actors are up to the von Trier's challenges, but...It's a cerebral piece of horror, one that keeps you at arm's length.
10/24/09
Absolutely stunning in its visual flourishes, horrifying in its aggressive violence, and knowing in its psycho-sexual philosophical bent, Von Trier's Antichrist is simply astonishing.
10/24/09
It is a repulsive, perplexing piece of art. It is also brutally effective. Whether that's incentive enough to sit through this film depends largely on your threshold for pain.
10/24/09
Pretentious, explicit, and, at times, unequivocally ridiculous.
10/23/09
Artfully horrific but artificial and soulless.
10/23/09
If you can crawl out from under the hype, it definitely works in a kind of mad, ridiculous way.
10/23/09
The 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 CriticAdmiration can go to his sheer audacity but not to his execution of his ideas, which resonate with pretensions and a certain pomposity.
10/23/09
"Antichrist" is a curious mash-up of cutting-edge torture-porn and good old porn-porn that fails on both fronts.
10/23/09
Please don't take anything I've said to indicate that Antichrist isn't difficult to watch. It most certainly is, but as somebody (the Marquis de Sade, perhaps) once said: No pain, no gain.
10/23/09
Though it's hard to deny the fierce purity of Gainsbourg's performance, Antichrist plays like an incoherent mix of Gothic horror claptrap and Bergmanesque power struggle. I was more bored and puzzled than shattered and provoked.
10/23/09
The movie's story and meaning are not mysterious but deliberately impenetrable, faint gestures in all directions, absent of artistic integrity, intellectual rigor or emotional significance.
10/23/09
You can read all you want into Antichrist, but I think the basic summation of the film is simple -- Lars von Trier was depressed and he wanted you to be too.
10/22/09
For this kind of Satan-in-the-woods scenario, Von Trier is doing a little too much Scenes From a Marriage and not quite enough The Evil Dead.
10/22/09
Antichrist feels less like an art house film than a parody of one.
10/22/09
I can’t deny this is filled with powerfully primal images.
10/22/09
By turns repellent, powerful and ludicrous, Antichrist piles horror on horror with pitiless passion.
10/22/09
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