A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
Ambitious, intriguing but fatally self-important ...
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
For all of "Dogville's" strengths -- its powerful performances, the ingenious staging, how quickly and completely the audience accepts its stylized reality -- its take-home message is, ultimately, measly.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
26 Sep 2005
rotten:
There's nothing static about [Von Trier's] technique, but everything else about the movie is dreary and closed off.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
7 Aug 2004
rotten:
What Lars von Trier has achieved is avant-gardism for idiots.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
1 Aug 2004
rotten:
Fascinating for a while but, in the end, just sleep-inducing.