88 Boston Globe | Ty Burr Like a nightmare you recall during waking hours, and then only in its vast outlines, Antichrist has the power to haunt beyond words. For better and for worse, it is exactly the movie von Trier wanted to make and a piece of staggeringly pure cinema. Read full review
70 Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern By turns repellent, powerful and ludicrous, Antichrist piles horror on horror with pitiless passion. Read full review
60 NPR | Mark Jenkins For a hymn to panic and hostility, the movie is curiously artful. But only the most sympathetic viewers will find that its poetry outweighs its belligerence. Read full review
60 The Hollywood Reporter | Visually gorgeous to a fault and teeming with grandiose if often fascinating ideas that overwhelm the modest story that serves as their vehicle, this may be the least artistically successful film von Trier has ever made. Read full review