It's one good-looking, publicity-grabbing provocation, with an overlay of pseudo-Christian allegory thrown in to deflect a reasonable person's accusations of misogyny.
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Antichrist (2009)
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Reviews Counted:132
Fresh:66
Rotten:66
Average Rating:5.5/10
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]
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Top CriticAntichrist is a horrible combination of extraordinarily unpleasant elements. It's offensively misogynistic. It's needlessly graphic in its use of violence. And its maker almost certainly needs psychiatric help.
07/24/09
Imagine a Saw film with a slower pace and more pretentious ambitions.
10/31/09
What's the purpose of Antichrist beyond an artist's callow flaunting of his recalcitrance?
09/21/09
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
11/20/09
the lensing by Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle is absolutely precious...expressionistic in nature, give the feeling of a Bosch painting brought to life
10/09/09
Antichrist is a fairground ride through the brain of a genius, both nightmarish and apocalyptic. Trier’s head is the most dangerous place in modern cinema, its multiple caverns mysteriously structured and weirdly laid out.
07/24/09
What is Von Trier trying to say?
10/30/09
The film can expose you to nothing about life, nothing about film, while telling you more than you ever wanted to know about the director’s malicious vanity.
07/24/09
The quasi-religious title is misleading provocation; Antichrist is really anti-cinema.
10/22/09
Antichrist is a kind of exorcism for von Trier, an exorcism that involves no less than the destruction of the genitals of both sexes.
10/26/09
I like movies that elicit complicated responses, and "Antichrist" -- which is beautiful, ugly, insightful, crude and lyrical, sometimes all at once -- blew me away.
11/13/09
To say that Antichrist is shocking would suggest that it's effective.
10/21/09
Top CriticThis thoroughly pretentious offering is more childish and terrible than enfant terrible. The most startling – and boring – film you’ll see this year.
07/24/09
This woman-hating, audience-baiting, nerve-grating tripe gets off to a rancid start, and then just rots away before your very eyes for 104 stupefying minutes.
11/26/09
Antichrist 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
Antichrist ends up being more unnerving than it is terrifying, and a lot funnier than it's supposed to be.
11/13/09
Top CriticVon Trier, never exactly an optimist, has never been this gloomy and pessimistic. Antichrist is the feel-bad movie of the year.
12/02/09
Provocative, sloppy and intellectually retarded -- the entire picture feels like it's sprung forth from Von Trier's Id without a second thought as to the consequences.
10/27/09
We deride the lack of bold visions and confronting themes in world cinema today, yet a film like Antichrist comes along and there is a backlash against its artistry, complexity, ambition and ambiguity just because it contains moments that deeply shock.
11/26/09
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