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100
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Mischievous, singular and profound.
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91
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
This galvanizing cinematic work is also gorgeous, experimental, alive with a Scandinavian strain of chutzpah, and artistically elegant.
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90
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It plays like a baldfaced, brazen insult, but it is a stunningly accomplished one.
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90
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
No matter how you come down on this movie politically, Dogville is a compelling chamber piece with constant cinematic surprises. And you remember that von Trier is, above everything else, a consummate filmmaker.
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88
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Kidman gives the most emotionally bruising performance of her career in Dogville, a movie that never met a cliche it didn't stomp on.
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80
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
While you watch the movie, it can seem ridiculously long-winded. But once it's over, its characters' miserable faces remain etched in your memory, and its cynical message lingers.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Not for everyone. It is darkly funny, intellectually challenging and obliquely didactic. It also grows bleaker over the course of its nearly three-hour running time.
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50
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Lars von Trier exhibits the imagination of an artist and the pedantry of a crank in Dogville, a film that works as a demonstration of how a good idea can go wrong.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
A provocation, a coup de théâtre and three hours of tedious experimentation.
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10
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A symphony for tin ears, a sniggering assessment of human nature delivered with the faux-lofty tone of a Lexus commercial.
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