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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Mischievous, singular and profound. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    This galvanizing cinematic work is also gorgeous, experimental, alive with a Scandinavian strain of chutzpah, and artistically elegant. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    No matter how you come down on this movie politically, Dogville is a compelling chamber piece with constant cinematic surprises. And you remember that von Trier is, above everything else, a consummate filmmaker. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    It plays like a baldfaced, brazen insult, but it is a stunningly accomplished one. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Kidman gives the most emotionally bruising performance of her career in Dogville, a movie that never met a cliche it didn't stomp on. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    While you watch the movie, it can seem ridiculously long-winded. But once it's over, its characters' miserable faces remain etched in your memory, and its cynical message lingers. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Not for everyone. It is darkly funny, intellectually challenging and obliquely didactic. It also grows bleaker over the course of its nearly three-hour running time. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Lars von Trier exhibits the imagination of an artist and the pedantry of a crank in Dogville, a film that works as a demonstration of how a good idea can go wrong. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    A provocation, a coup de théâtre and three hours of tedious experimentation. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    An artistically experimental, ideologically apocalyptic blast at American values that is as obvious in intent as it is murky in aesthetic achievement. Read full review

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