Dogville Reviews

Dogville Review
by Jerry Saravia (Rating: 4/4)
"Dogville" is a masterpiece of theatre, and intrinsically flawed cinematically. How can a film be both things? Well, consider that this is the avant-garde work of Danish director Lars von Trier, who made one of my favorite films of the 1990's, "Breaking...more

Dogville Review
by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3.5/4)
There is, I suspect, no limit to the number of adjectives one can fling at Lars von Trier's controversial "Dogville": controversial (for starters), challenging, unique, theatrical, allegorical, artificial, anti-American, anti-bourgeois,...more

Dogville Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 7/10)
Susan Granger's review of "Dogville" (Lion's Gate Films) Danish film-maker Lars von Trier ("Breaking the Waves") tries a caustic, cynical twist on Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" in this three-hour cinematic curiosity, set in Depression Era....more

Dogville Review
by Jon Popick
In the grand scheme of things, Dogville should probably be attracting way more ire and attention than the big Jesus snuff film. One has to wonder how Danish writer-director Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark) feels about the timing of the release of his...more

Dogville Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 1/4)
Running a painfully long three hours, DOGVILLE is pretentious with a capital "P." It is an art house picture by writer/director Lars von Trier, who burst into international acclaim with his shaky-cam classic, BREAKING THE WAVES, but whose big follow-up...more

Dogville Review
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: A)
Reviewed by: Harvey S. Karten Grade: A Lions Gate Films Directed by: Lars von Trier Written by: Lars von Trier Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean- Marc Barr, Paul Bettany, Blair Brown, James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy...more