Dancer In The Dark Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Edward GuthmannAdd Critic to Favorites

A thrilling, audacious work.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

For all its fancy pedigree, the spellbinding Dancer in the Dark aims right for the heart and aces its target.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

It is a bold, reckless gesture.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

You may leave this movie exhilarated by its no-holds-barred boldness or annoyed and bewildered at the unpredictable course it takes.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

Leaves you questioning its intentions.Read the full review

USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

This is the kind of movie that has always polarized serious film folk, while the public usually elects to stay home and prune shrubs.Read the full review

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

Both stupefyingly bad and utterly overpowering; it can elicit, sometimes within a single scene, a gasp of rapture and a spasm of revulsion.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

Like a naive modernist hymn made by someone who doesn't, deep down, believe in hymns.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

At times the movie's crudeness has an eerie beauty, but the musical fantasies are a bewildering hash, and the protracted climax on death row is nearly unendurable.Read the full review

Variety | Derek ElleyAdd Critic to Favorites

A 2½-hour demo of auteurist self-importance that's artistically bankrupt on almost every level.Read the full review

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