A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Self-loathing, mean, ugly and perfectly made, Antichrist is probably the best film ever that you'd recommend to absolutely no one.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
13 Nov 2009
fresh:
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 fierce scorn.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
20 Nov 2009
rotten:
Antichrist is a unique form of cruel and unusual punishment: an unrelenting orgy of graphic sex, violence and cynicism that also manages to be wildly pretentious.
– Christopher Kelly,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Nov 2009
fresh:
Von Trier, never exactly an optimist, has never been this gloomy and pessimistic. Antichrist is the feel-bad movie of the year.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
2 Dec 2009
rotten:
Of course, von Trier wants us to react, to be repulsed, shocked, offended. Mission accomplished.