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Manderlay Review

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3.0

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  • 3.0
    46

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  • 0

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Manderlay is turgid and hollow.

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  • 0

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Hate is too strong an emotion to spend on such a clumsy, bloodless broadside against human foibles in general and American follies in particular.

  • 40

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    Trier gets lost in his own rhetoric, forgetting to entertain his flock while raking them over the coals.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    The subject being race relations, Manderlay is bound to stir considerable debate in intellectual circles, but given the director's abstract style and use of characters to enact an agenda, it's a discussion that will exclude the general public, who will ignore it as they did "Dogville."

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  • 40

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    Nothing von Trier presents here, whether real or imagined, is fresh or new.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    To warm to Manderlay, the chilly second installment of Lars von Trier's not-yet-finished three-part Brechtian allegory examining United States history, you must be willing to tolerate the derision and moral arrogance of a snide European intellectual thumbing his nose at American barbarism.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    I wouldn't go so far as to claim Manderlay is fun to watch. Von Trier, who can made compulsively watchable films ("Breaking the Waves"), has found a style that will alienate most audiences. Maybe it's necessary.

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