It seems today, that all you see, is violence in movies, and sex on T.V. But where are those good old fashion values.... On which we used to rely?! Lucky there's the Von Trier Guy! Lucky there's a man who, positively can do, all the things that make us... laugh and cry! He's the Von Trier Guy!

Pervert and sick... Blah! And sexist as well! Women as a symbol of the evil... Definitely a NO GO for me.

The quasi-religious title is misleading provocation; Antichrist is really anti-cinema.

Overall Enjoyment: 35/40, Plot/Themes: 15/20, Cinematography/Direction: 20/20, Acting/Writing: 15/20 This film explores the darker nature of humans struggling with grief and how they cope with it. It presents powerful themes and the mood and tone that permeates every scene compliments them well. The literal story gets a little hazy towards the finale, which is the films greatest weakness, but the artistic vision of the director stays strong the entire time.

The first hour of the film is quite beautiful. I tried to sit back and just enjoy the absolutely breathtaking cinematography and editing. I failed to see the so called 'torture porn' involved as it'd be a fairly huge leap to compare this to Hostel or the likes. I'm not even going to pretend to understand the magnitude of symbology involved here as Trier clearly did his homework. Overall, an extremely unique horror film that lived up to more than I expected it to.

Hmm, Von Triers. Dancer in the dark, breaking the waves and the idiots are great. However this film and Antichrist I find unlikeable. I don't mind the explicit violence (physical and psychological)...and I can stand the leads, atmosphere, find the basic premise intriguing. What makes it unappealing and unlikeable has something with its tedium factor: its dull.

Pretty sure American critics are universally old ladies that want every movie to be Love, Actually.

CHAOS REIGNS

A singular vision that produces...something. Von Trier's film ranges from silly to profound. Worth watching, but probably only once.

Boredom reigns

the visual style instantly identifies von trier as a theater director. stills. stills. stills. the mood ranges from pornographic to creepy to outright mental. especially the last third is something you will remember, if you want to or not. the depiction of sexual violence is so fucking sick, it's almost due for censorship. i could have done without seeing most of this stuff, yet it strangely wasn't an all bad experience and seems weirdly justified.

Compellin, thrilling, frightening, emotional, engrossing, and beautiful all at once. Antichrist is a wonderful art film by the fearless director, Lars von Trier, who I would say is one of the greats of this generation. Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are astounding in this film. It really says something when two people can carry an entire film by themselves.

The idea of sex as death isn't exactly new, but no one has illustrated it quite like von Trier before. From the primal scene in the prologue forming the first sex-death link, to the ultimate elimination of sex it leaves a powerful impression. Something I liked was the position that depression changes your reality, both in the past and the present. I sort of rolled my eyes at the sections where it refers to women and misogyny though, it felt too much like von Trier mocking his critics to me.

Hard to review a film that is guranteed to polarise people to wards hating it or loving it ... as an "experience" surrounding the emotions of someone losing a child, I found it immensely moving, intense and thought provoking. As with a lot of "hollywood", the story decends a little into the typical "last 20 minute" roller coaster ride, but ultimately, it is a film that stays with you and continues to ask the question "How would YOU react" ?

Really, wtf? You think cutting your clitoris with scissors help or pare your penis with piece of wood is very artistical ?

It's hard to review critically acclaimed films poorly without seeming like an uncultured peon but I stand by my opinion that this film is largely a clusterfuck of gross-out shock tactics, implausibility and obscurity for obscurity's sake. I simply didn't enjoy the experience of watching the film and, for the aforementioned reasons, couldn't even take the film seriously as a work of art. However, the does film has great cinematography with some awe-inspiring slow motion sequences but that is all.

As explicit as the instances of grotesque violence to be had in Antichrist is director Lars von Trier's borderline-pathetic need to provoke. Doling out a low-rent, masturbatory alternative to Dumont's unfashionable-but-masterful Twentynine Palms, von Trier indulges sick fancies with only minor glimpses of insight, no empathy - just (as you'd guess) provocation. For someone who declared himself the greatest filmmaker around, he ironically produces nothing of distinction and fittingly falls flat.

This should've won Best Cinematography at the Oscars. I'm spewing that the candy-jar that was Avatar won instead. This didn't even get nominated. Dod Mantle's work on Slumdog Millionaire was terrific, Oscar-worthy itself, but here he proves himself a worthy successor to both Vittorio Storaro and Sven Nykvist. With Antichrist, the best looking film in the past five years or so, he really shoots for the moon. It's dark side, that is.