If you can crawl out from under the hype, it definitely works in a kind of mad, ridiculous way.
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10/23/09
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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: 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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Reviews for Antichrist
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
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
Top CriticThis is a classic case of a filmmaker believing he has found a greater truth and attempting with only middling success to regurgitate it in a film. And, like all vomit, you can kind-of see what it's composed of but the smell drives you away.
10/21/09
Top CriticAntichrist 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
A 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
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
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?
11/02/09
Visually 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 CriticAntichrist feels less like an art house film than a parody of one.
10/22/09
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
For better and for worse, it is exactly the movie von Trier wanted to make and a piece of staggeringly pure cinema. On at least one level, it’s also hateful.
10/22/09
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
It's a beautiful film, if a difficult one to love, an adaptation in form of "Thanatopsis" that hears Nature speak with a forked tongue
12/03/09
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
The expert direction, editing and photography are all here, along with two amazing performances. But this warped Adam and Eve myth is seriously hard to stomach.
07/24/09
Antichrist, by turns brilliant, by turns boring, is the most average horror film of the year.
07/24/09
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.
11/12/09
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.
11/05/09
A hoot
10/26/09
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