Breaking The Waves Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Although it contains many visually compelling passages and some provocative moments, the movie is strangely banal and simplistic.Read the full review
A narrative path leading from the sincere to the ludicrous, and culminating in a final image of flabbergasting transcendance, gives Breaking the Waves its surprising power.Read the full review
If not for a somewhat forced catharsis during the epilogue (the weakest segment of the movie), Breaking the Waves would have been more wrenching than it is.Read the full review
What Von Trier arrives at is a complex, contemporary, and deeply moving exploration of faith.Read the full review
Shallow where it would be meaningful, demanding leaps of faith it has not earned, this film's marriage of arresting technique to empty thinking is not unique, only frustrating.Read the full review
The longer the movie drones on, the queasier it gets. [6 June 1997, Life, p.3D]Read the full review
True art is a journey to somewhere you've never been, and there has never been a movie quite like Breaking the Waves.Read the full review
One of the most haunting and vital movies of the year.Read the full review
"Waves" is a spellbinder.Read the full review
Not many movies like this get made, because not many filmmakers are so bold, angry and defiant.Read the full review
