Dear Wendy
Wellspring Media | Release Date: September 23, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
11
Negative:
11
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38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A tedious exercise in style, intended as a meditation on guns and violence in America but more of a meditation on itself, the kind of meditation that invites the mind to stray. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Especially in the climactic, clumsily staged gunfight, the prevailing mode is wide-eyed idiocy--which might be the point, since von Trier's satirical target is the hypocrisy of (news flash!) America's eagerness to enforce stability and security with all guns blazing. Read full review
30
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Well made but unlikable and dramatically absurd picture. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The protracted shoot-out at the end of Dear Wendy is even more pornographic than the moment when a female member of the Dandies exposes her breasts. The audience is clearly expected to enjoy the bloodbath even while it disapproves. Read full review
30
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It's not merely that Dear Wendy was shot on Danish and German locations that don't look quite right; it's that almost every decision made by the production designers is wrong, or at least discordant. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
It's a long slog, not because what the film says is provocative but because the technique is as slack as the writing. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The movie's smugness is insufferable.
20
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It's a diatribe from beginning to end. Read full review
10
The New York TimesDana Stevens
The story is laughably incoherent, which would be less bothersome if the movie were not also so unremittingly pretentious. Read full review
10
Dallas ObserverStaff (Not credited)
Is there anything more tedious than the guy who complains and complains about something he knows nothing about? Danish cinema auteur Lars von Trier has never been to the United States because he's afraid of flying, yet he seems determined to keep making movies about how horrible this country is. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Annoyingly simplistic. Read full review
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