Von 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.
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11/06/09
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Antichrist (2009)
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Reviews Counted:127
Fresh:63
Rotten:64
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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Von Trier and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle use sumptuous black-and-white photography and saturated color. Few movies are as beautifully wrought as this.
11/06/09
It'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
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
Imagine a Saw film with a slower pace and more pretentious ambitions.
10/31/09
What is Von Trier trying to say?
10/30/09
A 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.
10/29/09
On the whole, I'd rather be dragged to hell by Sam Raimi.
10/29/09
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.
10/29/09
Von Trier's personal demons are thrillingly cinematic, but they're his, not necessarily ours.
10/28/09
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
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
On a narrative level, it's gobbledygook, as if von Trier has dredged up the details of a nightmare and filmed them in an attempt to get at some primal truths.
10/26/09
Von Trier has said he wanted to make a genre horror picture, but he couldn’t even come up with a decent metaphor: The climax is out of a Grade C hack-’em-up with people chasing each other through the woods with axes and knives.
10/26/09
Top CriticA hoot
10/26/09
The film's incoherence breaks von Trier's trademark wave of sensibility into something lesser, something all too easily understood.
10/25/09
A psychologically horrifying, fascinating and emotionally devastating experience that should be studied, analyzed and discussed scene-for-scene by film buffs for its brilliant, stylish production values, allegories and allusions.
10/24/09
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
Absolutely stunning in its visual flourishes, horrifying in its aggressive violence, and knowing in its psycho-sexual philosophical bent, Von Trier's Antichrist is simply astonishing.
10/24/09
It is a repulsive, perplexing piece of art. It is also brutally effective. Whether that's incentive enough to sit through this film depends largely on your threshold for pain.
10/24/09
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