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75
Viewer score based on 51 votes.

Critic Score

81
Critics' score based on 39 reviews.
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Don't waste your time watching this movie. I wasted over an hour of my life on this waste of film. The movie makes no sense, and doesn't hold a solid... ************** all over, and it's hard to make sense of what is actually happening. Disappointed :/ Full Review

June 04,2012
tk00000000124673

My 2nd favorite picture of 2011. And I'm feeling guilty. It really should be my first. Kirsten Dunst deserved an Oscar nod. Rosie O'Donnell does... not. Bravo! Full Review

May 07,2012
loncross103

the film is really melancholy, enough to give a certain depression to see the critical state of optimal performance of Kristen Dunst, the film... s to make an optimal transaction for the joy of marriage to the despair of hopelessness. the final explanation of his melancholy is well established and counted and the final scene very nice, the downside is for the entrained rhythm that many times comes to tire the viewer.Write your review here... Full Review

May 01,2012
uv00000000122701

Only the cinematography is good while the plot doesn't really make sense. Okay, she got married with this man, and then what? He totally disappeared... in the second half of the film. She got sick and confused in the first half of the film but turns to be the one who's calm as opposed to her sister, who is sensible at the beginning but loses her head in the end. And how does her brother-in-law die? In the stable, but why does it happen? All these don't make sense. Are they all under the influence of this planet Melancholia? Full Review

April 15,2012
ctssy

Loved it. Hit or miss from both perspectives and hopes.

March 20,2012
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Critic Reviews

For all the tyrannical disdain he's shown other filmmakers over the years, von Trier once again demonstrates a mastery of classical technique, extracting incredibly strong performances from his cast while serving up a sturdy blend of fly-on-the-wall naturalism and jaw-dropping visual effects.Full Review

Variety

Melancholia hovers in ambiguity with riveting aesthetic prowess.Full Review

Eric Kohn
indieWIRE

Von Trier is a burr under the hide for many viewers, and the unconverted won't be convinced. But it's audacious, beautiful, tactful filmmaking and perhaps the perfect match for "The Tree Of Life" on a bipolar double bill.Full Review

Kim Newman
Empire

Firmly rooted in the filmmaker's esoteric, frustrating, provoking, demanding narrative style, the movie is also amazingly romantic - lush, ripe, rich, delicious.Full Review

Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times

The vision is as hateful as it is hate-filled, but the fusion of form and content is so perfect that it borders on the sublime.Full Review

David Edelstein
New York Magazine
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