A dark sense of humor and strong stomach are required to appreciate Lars von Trier’s graphically violent serial killer film starring Matt Dillon.

You probably have heard about the hundred attendees who ran out of the world premiere of Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built at the Cannes Film Fest...

The Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier has coped with depression, alcohol abuse and a fairly justifiable persecution complex for years now. In 2011 he shot his ...

★★☆☆☆ Persona non grata and middle-aged man terrible Lars von Trier returns to UK cinema screens with serial killer black comedy The House That...

Matt Dillon is captivating in this Dantesque meditation on art, life, and carnal desires.

Lars von Trier returns with a controversial serial killer drama. Read the Empire review.

Matt Dillon gives the performance of his life as a serial killer in this brutal film

A homicidal spree that doubles as an autoerotic ego massage, Lars von Trier's episodic bloodbath sneers at the controversy that got him banned from Cannes se...

The Danish auteur’s latest has been hyped as shockingly violent, but tension proves in short supply in this monotonous serial killer movie 

The filmmaker is back with another provocative epic, this time with a personal edge.

The idea of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier’s new “The House That Jack Built” is the most exciting thing about it.

Lars von Trier is up to his old tricks in this absurdly macabre and deeply self-conscious portrait of a serial killer.

Matt Dillon plays a philosophical serial killer in the gory and sadistic drama, which is as simplistically shocking as its flip, café-table musings about th...

This uber-violent film about a remorseless serial killer (Matt Dillon) requires an iron stomach, but it's a "thoughtful, honest onscreen meditation on morali...

“My problem is really that I’m a crowd-pleaser,” or so says the director, who has a new movie — and a new scandal — at the Cannes Film Festival.

Matt Dillon may play a serial killer in Lars von Trier’s latest movie, but its real subject seems to be its director.

Reviews from the Cannes Film Festival of three world premieres, including the latest by Lars von Trier. 

Ultimately, it’s more of an inconsistent cry into the void than the conversation starter it could have been.

'The House That Jack Built' is the serial-killer movie nobody wanted from Lars von Trier, and a failed act of provocation. Our review.

Lars Von Trier kicks it up a notch with his latest controversial piece, The House That Jack Built

Lars Von Trier makes a typically provocative return to Cannes

If this shrill, manipulative, sledge-hammer allegory about a serial killer is right for our times, give me Dante any day.

The Wikipedia entry for Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) describes the condition as "a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exagger...

Von Trier so badly wants to be reprehensible with his sudden and messy bursts of violence, yet the chaos is empty, the edginess meaningless

Kiss your children. Go for a walk in the park. Do anything — it really doesn't matter what — rather than see Lars Von Trier's "The House That Jack Built."

Now screening in an R-rated edit, this tale of a possible murderer remains devoid of feeling or interest

Cannes 2018: Lars von Trier's gleeful look at a sadistic killer is actually boring when it isn't grossing you out

Scores of Cannes filmgoers allegedly walked out of the film in protest—but von Trier’s latest really isn’t all that shocking.

Matt Dillon is spooky and possessed in Lars von Trier's serial-killer drama, which keeps you grimly absorbed and shut out at the same time.

Von Trier returns with a violent, banal, navel-gazing session.