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?
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11/02/09
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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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To say that Antichrist is shocking would suggest that it's effective.
10/21/09
Top CriticThis is a bold, beautiful journey into the dark side of the soul that leaves you with many questions. But it is a film that will not leave you.
11/26/09
I think [von Trier's] immature. I think he's even childish at times.
11/26/09
Chaos reigns, indeed, but let's at least attempt to be as unflinchingly honest as von Trier: When has Chaos not?
11/20/09
Antichrist 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.
11/20/09
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
I’m torn between dismissing the film as gross-out juvenilia and regarding it as raw religious mythmaking. Either way, you won’t find a livelier time at the movies these days, if only because of the outraged groans and dumfounded gasps from the audience.
10/22/09
Admiration 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
Von Trier's previous sorties into torturing the audience ...were structured around issues of faith, God ... and the human condition. This time around, however, the thrust is either incoherent or so complex as to require a sharper mind than my own.
10/22/09
Antichrist is an original, gothic and combative; a perfect night at the movies for those who enjoy cold sweats and the inevitability of post-screening divorce proceedings.
09/17/09
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
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
I can’t deny this is filled with powerfully primal images.
10/22/09
Von 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 CriticI'm inclined to agree with a colleague who told me he could swing with Antichrist when it was simply unstable but couldn't go with it when it turned insane. It's a useful distinction. And yet the first hour...is pretty stunning.
10/22/09
Top CriticA hoot
10/26/09
If you can crawl out from under the hype, it definitely works in a kind of mad, ridiculous way.
10/23/09
Who knows what Von Trier was trying to achieve with the movie--some sort of catharsis, possibly?--but it's doubtful anyone will want to sit through it a second time to figure it out.
09/14/09
Porno-horror pic pessimistic about humanity with tour-de-force performances by Gainsbourg and Dafoe.
10/19/09
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