Manderlay
IFC Films | Release Date: January 27, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
6
Negative:
9
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38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Plagued by moralizing so strident and a style so artificial that the story never has a chance to speak to an audience. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
All of this plays out as flat, didactic, and lazy. Read full review
30
SlateDana Stevens
Perhaps the saddest thing about Manderlay is how poorly von Trier treats his actors, who are so bludgeoned by the concept and the format they can scarcely breathe. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
No matter where he (Von Trier) begins, his dramatic compass drifts toward the same pole: the sexual humiliation of his heroine (How could Daddy let you do this, Bryce?). But it's hard to get too worked up over racial injustice when a director has the temperament of a Klansman. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Another ridiculous anti-American screed by the minimalist Danish director Lars von Trier, who has never set foot in this country. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The film is obvious, weak and scattered and seems more like a practical joke than a work of genuine passion. It is without exaggeration one of the most blindingly boring films I've seen in years. Read full review
20
Washington PostPhilip Kennicott
Even the basic look of the film -- it was filmed on a stage with every shot set against a bleak, dark backdrop -- underscores the filmmaker's position as master manipulator, in a laboratory, looking down at his mice running through his maze. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Manderlay is turgid and hollow. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Hate is too strong an emotion to spend on such a clumsy, bloodless broadside against human foibles in general and American follies in particular.
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