Dancer in the Dark
Fine Line Features | Release Date: September 22, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
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Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3
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60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
My only reason to recommend this movie is that there's nothing quite like it. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Aside from Bjork's astonishing performance, it's a grim tragedy that's deliberately drab and exceedingly painful to watch. Read full review
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
If it weren't for a terrific central performance by the Icelandic pop singer Bjork, Dancer in the Dark would be all but unwatchable.
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
A movie that by turns is wincingly awful and heartbreakingly fine. It boasts an unforgettable performance by Björk.
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Like a naive modernist hymn made by someone who doesn't, deep down, believe in hymns. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
What is meant to be an innovative, cutting-edge musical melodrama is so jumbled, irrational and amateurish that it makes dinner theater look like the Old Vic. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
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 full review
50
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Both stupefyingly bad and utterly overpowering; it can elicit, sometimes within a single scene, a gasp of rapture and a spasm of revulsion. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Fairly incompetent as a musical and rather silly as a drama. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Lars von Trier is a mechanic, not an artist. And his movies are meat grinders he feeds his characters through. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Two-and-a-half hour slice of unmitigated depression. Read full review
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