Click here to read our interview with director Lars Von TrierI’ve seenLars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’ twice now and experienced such wildly different reac

Danish director Lars von Trier always goes too far with his cinematic insurgencies, though at his best he'll circle back to something like lucid territory. Not in Antichrist, which just keeps pressing deeper into a conceptual thicket. Critic Mark Jenkins says it seems designed to provoke ambivalence — beautiful yet assaultive, sometimes smart but often silly, both insightful and glib about the mysteries of desire, grief and fear.

Neither meltdown nor breakthrough

Lars von Trier might not be, as he famously boasted in Cannes, “the best director in the world.” But, as witnessed by his “Antichrist,”...

Lars von Trier lives to affront again. Chaos, indeed, reigns.

Lars von Trier’s new film Antichrist opens with the writer-director’s name scrawled crudely on a huge title card, which makes for an apt overture. Antichrist is a boldly personal film, tossing all von Trier’s ideas about faith, fear, and human nature into an unfettered phantasmagoria, full of repulsive visions and…

Props to Lars von Trier for managing to revive an idea that Judeo-Christian teaching, the Enlightenment, and feminism have helped us to suppress: that misogyny is a sound religious position. In his latest cinematic mugging, cheekily titled Anti [...]

Antichrist is a classic case of the Emperor's New Clothes. On the surface, it seems like there's something there - as if Lars von Trier is making bold statements about important issues. But when you think about it, he's not saying much, and what he...