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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:57
Rotten:61
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Gruesome, explicit and highly controversial; Lars Von Triers arthouse-horror, though beautifully shot, is no easy ride.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:2008
Box Office: $228,568
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]
Whatever your opinion of von Trier -- he’s the enemy of polite cinema, at the very least -- there’s no denying Antichrist is a fine horror film. The movie understands that genuine terror isn’t the domain of ghouls and spectres; it resides in people.
A tough film on every level, and each viewer will have their personal and private response; but von Trier's cinematic flourish is undeniable
With disturbing images that gnaw at us, this is a truly ugly film that delights at shocking us. Von Trier kidnaps our thoughts and takes them into dark, repulsive places
Antichrist is a unique form of cruel and unusual punishment: an unrelenting orgy of graphic sex, violence and cynicism that also manages to be wildly pretentious.
Top CriticAntichrist is a boldly personal film, tossing all von Trier’s ideas about faith, fear, and human nature into an unfettered phantasmagoria, full of repulsive visions and fierce scorn.
Chaos reigns, indeed, but let's at least attempt to be as unflinchingly honest as von Trier: When has Chaos not?
For those who care, it should generate a fairly spirited post-screening debate on the subject of "What's wrong with this guy?"
Self-loathing, mean, ugly and perfectly made, Antichrist is probably the best film ever that you'd recommend to absolutely no one.
Top CriticAntichrist ends up being more unnerving than it is terrifying, and a lot funnier than it's supposed to be.
Top CriticI like movies that elicit complicated responses, and "Antichrist" -- which is beautiful, ugly, insightful, crude and lyrical, sometimes all at once -- blew me away.
To watch the Danish provocateur's new film is to experience unrelenting pain, shading into revulsion, while being inspired by his virtuoso command of the medium and sharp intelligence.
Top CriticVon Trier throws in every controversial topic and random bit of symbolism to the point where the film plays like a parable about the foolishness of reading into parables.
Von Trier and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle use sumptuous black-and-white photography and saturated color. Few movies are as beautifully wrought as this.
Top CriticIt's one of those movies whose fans will claim the naysayers just don't "get" when, in truth, it's not particularly hard to understand. It just isn't very good.
It doesn't add up to more than an elaborate punking, and... I don't understand who it is that's being punked. Von Trier's detractors? His fans? Charlotte Gainsbourg?
Imagine a Saw film with a slower pace and more pretentious ambitions.
What is Von Trier trying to say?
Top CriticA blood soaked horror fest with surrealistic overtones in the stripped down von Trier style. Overly disturbing but still a must see for fans of von Trier, Dafoe or Gainsbourg.
On the whole, I'd rather be dragged to hell by Sam Raimi.
No doubt some people will find Antichrist repellent. The question is whether you're open to films that are as flawed as they are ambitious.
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