Metacritic Movie Ratings
Antichrist Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 88

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  More than anything else, I responded to the performances. Feature films may be fiction, but they are certainly documentaries showing actors in front of a camera. Both Dafoe and Gainsbourg have been risk takers, as anyone working with von Trier must be. The ways they're called upon to act in this film are extraordinary. They respond without hesitation. More important, they convince.

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• 60

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  Visually gorgeous to a fault and teeming with grandiose if often fascinating ideas that overwhelm the modest story that serves as their vehicle, this may be the least artistically successful film von Trier has ever made.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  The trouble is, it's all too exhibitionistic to ring true. The impotent folly of Antichrist is that von Trier has made it his mission to shock the bourgeoisie in an era when they can no longer be shocked.

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• 30

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  Lars von Trier cuts a big fat art-film fart with Antichrist. As if deliberately courting critical abuse, the Danish bad boy densely packs this theological-psychological horror opus with grotesque, self-consciously provocative images.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

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

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• 25

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Antichrist is probably the most disturbing, bleak and self-indulgent film ever made.

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• 20

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey

  Female sexuality has evolved into pure evil here with Von Trier looking ever so much like the Marquis de Sade of filmmaking.

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