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(1 - 24) of 24 OFCS Rating: 54% Rotten Page   1   "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."   Examiner.com   Adam Lippe "A beautiful battery of depraved images and irrational associations, Lars Von Trier's two-handed essay in horror is as distracting and deadening as depression itself."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel 5/5 "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."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B "Antichrist is an original, gothic and combative; a perfect night at the movies for those who enjoy cold sweats and the inevitability of post-screening divorce proceedings."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf A "...von Trier creates a tense and provocative horror film bound up in terms of psycho-therapy, sexual desire, and the shocking brutality of Mother Nature."   Daily Radar   Cole Smithey .5/4 "...as tedious and interminable an experience as one could possibly envision."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3.5/4 "A fairy tale gone fatalistically wrong, the stark opposite of happily ever after. Impresses with its sheer dauntless, sobering nerve."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 1.5/4 "What's the purpose of Antichrist beyond an artist's callow flaunting of his recalcitrance?"   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C+ "Imagine a Saw film with a slower pace and more pretentious ambitions."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "A hoot"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 23/100 "The brutality is sickening, and unlike, say, the broken glass sequence in Bergman's Cries and Whispers--where the entire film built up to one brief, painful moment--it serves no overarching purpose, quickly becoming an exercise in haughty"   Film and Felt   Gabe Leibowitz "For a while it's wonderful...grappling with the contours of grief, the effects of toddler suicide, the limits of psychotherapy and the dynamics of marriage. And then Charlotte Gainsbourg has to spoil it all by doing something stupid..."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 2.5/4 "This is a classic case of a filmmaker believing he has found a greater truth and attempting with only middling success to regurgitate it in a film. And, like all vomit, you can kind-of see what it's composed of but the smell drives you away."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 82/100 "By turns provocative, repulsive and downright elemental, it churns with such a surfeit of unresolved energy that it's likely to leave viewers dazed and confused by the end of its assault."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 1/5 "click for full review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis B "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."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford .5/5 "This wretched thing should have been snuffed out at the drawing board."   Film Threat   Matthew Sorrento C "Only sporadically feels like an effort interested in grappling with the miserable fallout from tragedy."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3.5/5 "The expert direction, editing and photography are all here, along with two amazing performances. But this warped Adam and Eve myth is seriously hard to stomach."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "A great film that I will never, ever subject myself to again."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 8/10 "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."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 4/5 "A confrontational film that dances between the sublime, the mundane, and the shocking with little to no regard for audience expectations."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 1/10 "Too sadistic, violent, and grossly offensive, there are some movies that never should have been made, even for art-house audiences."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "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?"   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 24) of 24 OFCS Rating: 54% Rotten Page   1