We get it, Lars. Actually, we got it some time ago. Guns are bad things. They kill people and Americans are obsessed with them. Can we move on now?
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Dear Wendy (2005)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:3
Rotten:13
Average Rating:4.2/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 23, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Dogme '95 cofounders Thomas Vinterberg (CELEBRATION) and Lars Von Trier (DANCER IN THE DARK, DOGVILLE) team up in DEAR WENDY, an unusual but entertaining drama set in an unnamed American small... [More]
Starring: Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano, Novella Nelson
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
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Reviews for Dear Wendy
1 - 16 (sorted by date)
Top CriticThe scenario's practically straitjacketed in commentary. Von Trier's weak story doesn't help.
10/06/05
Top CriticLike the Dandies, Vinterberg and Von Trier are fascinated by something they despise, and despise it even more for fascinating them. And in the end, like the Dandies, Vinterberg and Von Trier still don't know the first thing about it.
09/27/05
Top CriticThe audience is clearly expected to enjoy the bloodbath even while it disapproves.
09/24/05
Top CriticDear Wendy is loaded with ideas, some half-baked, some dead-on, some just stupid, and Vinterberg throws them at the screen willy-nilly.
09/24/05
Top CriticFor a film that explores the nuances of this complicated issue, I suggest you rent Gus Van Sant's Elephant.
09/23/05
Top CriticBloody as it is, it has no access to viewers' emotions, and its message - play with fire and you get burned -- is too obvious to be provocative.
09/23/05
Top CriticIt's so entertaining that even a die-hard NRA member might be impressed.
09/23/05
Top CriticAn allegory on guns and violence in America that is all the more resounding for its acutely observed foreigners' perspective.
09/22/05
Top CriticThe location is nowhere, the characters' diction is beyond stylized and Novella Nelson plays Dick's maid. Miner families with maids? Maybe in Denmark.
09/22/05
Top CriticThomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier take another step toward intellectual bankruptcy with a pretentious film about a group of pacifists obsessed with handguns.
09/22/05
Top CriticIt's a long slog, not because what the film says is provocative but because the technique is as slack as the writing.
09/22/05
Top CriticA tedious exercise in style, intended as a meditation on guns and violence in America but more of a meditation on itself, the kind of meditation that invites the mind to stray.
09/22/05
Top CriticEspecially in the climactic, clumsily staged gunfight, the prevailing mode is wide-eyed idiocy -- which might be the point.
09/20/05
Top CriticAlthough Dear Wendy, like most things Von Trier's name is attached to these days, has been widely attacked for selling a naïve and ersatz version of American gun culture, what's most interesting about it is just how unapologetically unreal it is.
09/09/05
Top CriticWell made but unlikable and dramatically absurd.
07/21/05
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