Antichrist

Prologue: While having sex, a couple (Willem Dafoe & Charlotte Gainsbourg) does not pay attention to their son Nick that wakes up, opens the window and falls on the sidewalk. Chapter 1- Grief: The mother becomes extremely depressed in her grief... Full review

We all know that Von Trier is a master provocateur, and he's really outdone himself this time. I just saw Antichrist, and it's going to take me awhile to digest it, but I can say already that it might be the... Full review

Prologue: Whilst a husband and wife have sex at home, their toddler climbs out a window and falls to his death. In the film, the husband is a therapist and is known simply as He. Similarly, the wife is a researcher... Full review

Some while back, the consistently atrocious Ewe Boll made a film called Seed. His self-imposed agenda was to produce a horror film that wasn't any fun. On that level he certainly achieved his objective. He managed to fashion one of the... Full review

This is nothing but a pile of garbage. It was strictly created to sell tickets for the shock factor, and that's all. The only thing that I got from it was that it was created by someone who wanted to make... Full review

Made for all the pseudo-intellectuals who can spend years analyzing every detail and nuance - which I'm quite sure has been put there for no particular reason at all. Sure, the falling baby-scene was nicely shot. And the duo of Dafoe... Full review

Come on, why is everybody raving about this movie... the opening scene and some of the mysterious shots in the movie look nice but everything here was done before, even in cheap perfume adverts. The movie is so damn boring and... Full review

John Doe says in "Se7en": ' Wanting people to pay attention, you can't just tap them on the shoulder. You have to hit them in the head with a sledgehammer .' L. von Trier was tapping on the shoulder with "Dogville".... Full review

Where does horror reside in the psyche? Lars von Trier has established himself as a maker of serious, avant-garde drama. He came to fame through Breaking the Waves, a controversial story of how far someone would go for love. He founded... Full review

"Antichrist" by Lars von Trier has to be one of the most perplexing psychological horror movies I have ever seen.It's loaded with invented symbolism,explicit sex and graphic violence.The film is clearly influenced by Nietzsche's essay "Guilt,Bad Conscience and the like" from... Full review

Even by the sadistic standards of Lars von Trier ("Breaking the Waves," "Dogville"), "Antichrist" is a unique form of cruel and unusual punishment:....but that's not enough to redeem a movie so completely juvenile and stupid..... ... Full Review

Antichrist ends up being more unnerving than it is terrifying....It degenerates into torture porn with scenes of highly visceral mutilations that will have people squirming in their seats, women particularly..... ... Full Review

Antichrist" is not a film to be enjoyed --....In an early episode, She recovers from the trauma of the opening scene in a hospital bed..... ... Full Review

What's bedeviling (and compelling) about "Antichrist" is it refutes hasty conclusions.....The director gives his long-standing fondness for August Strindberg room to torment his characters.....The director demands ferocious eros and muted (then not) menace of the actors..... ... Full Review

Antichrist' is an Ambitious, Audacious Masterpiece....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.....honestly that Antichrist will leave many confused and angry.....Indeed, the cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle (Oscar Winner for Slumdog Millionaire and previous Von Trier collaborator) deserves considerable praise.....Along with the amazing work by Gainsbourg and Dafo ... Full Review

Margaret and David , known the land over by just their first names, are something of a television institution. Since they started on SBS in 1986 they are synonymous with movie reviewing in Australia. ... Full Article

In this regard, Antichrist reminded me of nothing so much as a rawer version of The Shining, more explicit both in violence and sex. There's even a moment that rather obviously evokes that movie's "All work and no play makes... ... Full Article

Dear Mr. Ferraro: There's Meryl Streep, of course - and Karin Viard, who is sort of the French Streep, always different, always brilliant. But consistency is not always (or even usually) a quality of great actors. ... Full Article

Toronto's movie audiences get a lot of flattery from filmmakers about how warm and welcoming we are but, c'mon. If we were so great, then our behaviour at TIFF's most raucous screenings would've progressed much further than the cries of... ... Full Article

A national press campaign for the controversial film Antichrist has escaped a ban from the advertising watchdog after complaints that it was offensive and even pornographic. ... Full Article

In a water-skiing accident in 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg suffered a blow to the head, resulting in a cerebral hemorrhage similar to the one that caused the tragic death of actress Natasha Richardson this year. ... Full Article