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(1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh Page   1   "this Great Dane backs up his satiric bark with a vicious bite."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel "Manderlay, like its predecessor Dogville, is a very interesting flawed picture, though both films have very different weaknesses and strengths."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij B "Dubious intentions aside, Manderlay is an engrossing piece of art-house cinema, relying heavily on talent to make its points."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf D "The most self-important, heavy-handed film since...well, since DOGVILLE."   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna 3.5/5 "tastes like cough syrup; we may not like what we see but we really need to see it"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 1.5/4 "...extraordinarily dull..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "... an anti-American rant that tediously plays out as a misplaced lecture by the pretentious filmmaker."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Alabama, 1933—during which time Von Trier uses the existence of slavery 70 years after its abolition as a metaphor for America's ongoing treatment of its black underclassman."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez D "One should be happy to learn "Manderlay" is better than "Dogville," if only because it is forty-five minutes shorter."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens 3/4 "Manderlay certainly has its fair share of sanctimony and the familiarity of old school psychological racial conflict but it effectively works on the hungry psyche."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng C- "Another spare, tiresome, pretentious yet simple-minded anti-American diatribe from Danish Dogma-tist Lars von Trier...stale, arid polemic."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A morally provocative meditation on race in America and the troubles that can come when democracy and freedom are crammed down the throats of others."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 1.5/4 "It can become tiresome to watch von Trier bash the United States while realizing that he doesn't have a full understanding of what he's attacking."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 9/10 "Whether we like it or not, Von Trier's arguments have a universal social insight that would be detrimental to ignore. There's always value in seeing something from another's perspective."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 4/5 "Not necessarily as pertinent as it attempts to be."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi "Lars Von Trier's second of three proposed films about America being stupid is much shorter, has a much higher body count, and more sex than the first did."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 4/4 "Lesser than Dogville (then again, what isn't?), but still one of the best films of the year."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B- "strong enough to interest those who appreciated Dogville, but only just...had more inherent drama in the news reports of John Reilly's cast defection in protest to von Trier's mule killing"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "The unusual von Trier film whose formalism is worn lightly, whose performances impress without wearing on the nerves, and whose ethical standpoint is plain for all to observe"   Not Coming to a Theater Near You   Leo Goldsmith 3/5 "It doesn’t matter if these ideals are right or wrong; von Trier is a master of challenging an audience... he reminds us how to use that piece of meat found within our skull."   Film Threat   Michael Ferraro C+ "A victim of its own coolly artificial aesthetic."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Um belo filme, sem dúvida alguma, mas que empalidece frente ao seu antecessor ao tentar igualar-se como discurso sociológico."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 5/5 "Among the boldest and most original movies in recent release. "   Film Threat   Phil Hall 5/5 "A slow-burning, deeply disturbing fable that needs to be seen and discussed"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "If this trilogy finishes up strong, this middle portion may come to be seen as the weakest, though it's still forceful and intimate in the von Trier manner."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B "A slightly more ponderous - if less dramatically satisfying - example of a Von Trier puppet show."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick C- "This is not Lars von Trier at his best."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B- "... an absurdist comedy with a deadpan delivery and run through with the very hypocrisy that von Trier mercilessly ridicules."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2.5/4 "It's a visually arresting and intermittently compelling parable about racism and self-determinism that's ultimately too arch and pedantic for its own good."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh Page   1