The Five Obstructions

A sensational oddity. It sheds light on the creative process, on filmmaking and on the durability of friendship and professional respect despite the odds. Full Review

Watching The Five Obstructions is at once like witnessing two chess masters playing dominoes and like spying on a series of therapy sessions. Mr. von Trier clearly sees himself as a maniacal psychoanalyst. Full Review

Though billed as a documentary, The Five Obstructions doesn't easily fall into any category. Perhaps it's best described as a game, in which a pair of Danish film directors from different generations spar with one another in a highly civilized, and surprisingly entertaining, fashion. Full Review

In this enjoyable if trivial battle between von Trier's psychodrama theatricality and Leth's cool formalism, it's ultimately the viewer who comes out the winner. Full Review

A complete original. This ingenious, almost indescribable film won't remind you of anything else because there's nothing else like it. Full Review