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Dear Wendy (2005)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:22
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.1/10
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
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 2/5 |
Entre la sátira, la fábula y el comentario crítico (...) el interés se pierde y no convencen. Full Review |
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C- |
The highlight is when a female member of the Dandies bares her breasts, which is about as pointless as the rest of the film. Full Review |
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 3/4 |
Naive, corruptible, lonely young man meets femme fatale, and it all leads, inevitably, absurdly, to destruction. Full Review |
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The result is mixed. Full Review |
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1/5 |
a private joke for two guys who should know better. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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? Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
The film has the unmistakable imprint of [Lars] von Trier, with its heavy-handed tirade, masquerading as satire, assailing what he perceives to be America's obsessions with guns and violence. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Von Trier's caricature of teen angst and Vinterberg's junkyard-chic stylistic flourishes aren't about anything but their loathing of American culture. Full Review |
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you won't know whether to laugh, cry, or moon the screen. Von Trier shoots, von Trier scores. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
If Jamie Bell can't rescue a movie, it's probably not salvageable. Full Review |
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C |
The message doesn't come through with any particular wit or metaphoric punch, and it makes such a strong case for the joys of gun ownership that it could serve as a recruiting film for the National Rifle Association. Full Review |
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C+ |
When you have to ask yourself whether this parable is intended as comedic satire or stone-cold-serious moralizing, that's a big sign that you're watching a misfire. Full Review |
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1/4 |
A dumb movie that thinks it's smart is the worst kind of awful. Full Review |
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B+ |
Wendy might have a bizarre sense of locale and idolatry, but the imagination of the filmmakers is just enough to help swallow their incredibly condescending posturing. Full Review |
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the story makes no sense and depends upon people acting based on some crazed Dane's mental stereotype of Americans rather than actual human beings. Full Review |
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The scenario's practically straitjacketed in commentary. Von Trier's weak story doesn't help. Full Review |
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C |
Unable to determine its goal, Dear Wendy is a tweener, ideologically doctrinaire on the one hand and a wannabe hot youth movie on the other. Full Review |
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8/10 |
Baroque gun-toting fantasy and an uneasy sound track by the 1960s Zombies make this the heavy teen self-destruct flick of the year. Full Review |
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