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Antichrist (2009)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:65
Rotten:64
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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Reviews for Antichrist
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 85/100 |
... it got to me in the way that poetry or music or visual majesty can; it hammered that place beyond language and intellect, the animal id of the screaming self ... A gleaming atrocity. Bad medicine. Full Review |
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 2/4 |
in order to prove his thesis that all humans are evil, von Trier has to create his characters as monsters. And if they're monsters, then they're completely devoid of the humanity needed for the audience to identify with them, however unwillingly. Full Review |
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5/5 |
O sonho molhado de qualquer psicanalista. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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 Full Review |
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Von Trier, never exactly an optimist, has never been this gloomy and pessimistic. Antichrist is the feel-bad movie of the year. Full Review |
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2/5 |
I think [von Trier's] immature. I think he's even childish at times. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
This 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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Yes, Antichrist is harrowing and often shrill, but the horrors all serve the underlying theme that, try as they might, men can never fully understand the inconsolable grief women endure when they lose a child. Full Review |
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0/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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It's not a film for the faint of heart. Antichrist is about raw emotional heartbreak and the utter desolation of the soul, a film about being swallowed by grief until there is nothing left. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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A tough film on every level, and each viewer will have their personal and private response; but von Trier's cinematic flourish is undeniable Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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1/5 |
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. Full Review |
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B+ |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Chaos reigns, indeed, but let's at least attempt to be as unflinchingly honest as von Trier: When has Chaos not? Full Review |
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3/5 |
For those who care, it should generate a fairly spirited post-screening debate on the subject of "What's wrong with this guy?" Full Review |
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A- |
Self-loathing, mean, ugly and perfectly made, Antichrist is probably the best film ever that you'd recommend to absolutely no one. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Antichrist ends up being more unnerving than it is terrifying, and a lot funnier than it's supposed to be. Full Review |
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