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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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Hollywood ReporterJames Greenberg
Part parable, part wild west shoot-out, yet totally original, Dear Wendy is a powerful indictment of American gun culture. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
When you have to ask yourself whether this parable is intended as comedic satire or stone-cold-serious moralizing, that's a big sign that you're watching a misfire. Read full review
50
Film ThreatJeremy Mathews
The film is challenging and consistently interesting, but also trite and overbearing to the extent that it damages its message. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Starts out as an inspired test case for the continued necessity of the Second Amendment, and only near the end does it lose some of its tightly concentrated focus. Read full review
50
TimeRichard Corliss
Von Trier has a tendency to go overboard in his denunciations of American violence (Dogville). By contrast, Dear Wendy is a cogent, comprehensive take on the land and the films that obsess him. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
It may sound like a Peter Pan spinoff, and Dear Wendy does involve lost boys in a stagey setting, but the film is closer to "A Clockwork Orange" than a tale of lasting youth. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Dear Wendy is absurd to the point of comic parody. Bloody as it is, it has no access to viewers' emotions, and its message - play with fire and you get burned - is too obvious to be provocative. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Taking wobbly aim at our country's complicated love affair with guns, the movie's the very definition of a cheap shot. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Surreal, vaguely amusing, European-made drama. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Michael Posner
One part satire, two parts allegory, and several parts dreary sermon on the pernicious effects of America's gun culture. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Its mad rush to offer shallow takes on every Big American Issue would be offensive if it weren't so misguided. It's almost cute the way Dear Wendy thinks it knows what it's talking about and then just keeps going and going long after it's stopped making sense. Read full review
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