Antichrist

"Danish director's overly fecund imagination overwhelms a slight but visually splendid story (...) Visually gorgeous to a fault and teeming with grandiose if often fascinating ideas that overwhelm the modest story that serves as their vehicle" 

"The scandal of 'Antichrist' is not that it is grisly or upsetting but that it is so ponderous, so conceptually thin and so dull." 

"Danish bad boy densely packs this theological-psychological horror opus with grotesque, self-consciously provocative images" 

"I responded to the performances (...) The ways [Dafoe and Gainsbourg] are called upon to act in this film are extraordinary. They respond without hesitation. More important, they convince (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)" 

"If you want a bracing evening of pointless controversy in the cinema, then buy tickets (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" 

"Von Trier makes 'Antichrist' about how aesthetic control can be as impotent as therapeutic control when it comes to dealing with nature at its wildest." 

"'Antichrist' compels with its anguished intensity and audacious stylistic choices (...) [It] is a calamitous atrocity from a major filmmaker, nothing more and nothing less" 

"This is von Trier’s biggest accomplishment. He has created a world that is true to its own ghastly, shifting logic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"