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By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Nov 2011

Apocalyptic visions are nothing new in cinema, but they're almost always epic in scale; Von Trier's innovation is to peer down the large end…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Nov 2011

All that's deliberate, but the lingering question is not: Is Melancholia a sly depiction of the end we deserve, or simply a lovely load of…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 10 Nov 2011

Nearly everyone in this film is unlikeable, their actions inexplicable…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Nov 2011

If only Lars von Trier took into account that audiences might actually want to enjoy Melancholia, rather than endure it, or sift through it,…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 10 Nov 2011

Its true subject is melancholia as a spiritual state, a destroyer of happiness that emerges from its hiding place behind the sun, just like…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Nov 2011

Firmly rooted in the filmmaker's esoteric, frustrating, provoking, demanding narrative style, the movie is also amazingly romantic - lush,…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Nov 2011

If you can stand it, Melancholia pivots drastically at its midpoint, and becomes something else, something far more watchable…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 10 Nov 2011

Lars von Trier's end-of-days drama Melancholia feels as if it's something from another world...but even by his standards this remote yet lovely…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 10 Nov 2011

Watching Melancholia is like being stuck next to a brilliant depressive at a dinner party…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 10 Nov 2011

A mind-blowing end-of-the world drama that challenges us to take stock of our beliefs, feelings, and fears about death…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 10 Nov 2011

Von Trier draws us inexorably into the web of these characters. He loses us in a dream of his own devising. That's filmmaking…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 10 Nov 2011

[a] gorgeous, clever and eventually laughable misanthropic tease…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 10 Nov 2011

Melancholia is emphatically not what anyone would call a feel-good movie, and yet it nonetheless leaves behind a glow of aesthetic satisfaction…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 09 Nov 2011

Depression finally seems to have brought out the best in Lars von Trier: Melancholia is his strongest work in a while, a devastatingly beautiful,…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Nov 2011

The grand concept is really just a vehicle for a more intimate study of depression and its dangerous, shifting polarities…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Nov 2011

If I were choosing a director to make a film about the end of the world, von Trier the gloomy Dane might be my first choice…

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By Mark Sells (183) for The Reel Deal (52) on 09 Nov 2011

A deeply meditative film with stunning visuals, Melancholia brilliantly captures the chaos and calm before the storm…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 09 Nov 2011

A few moments of startling imagination, between which are sandwiched almost two hours of dreary, opaque storytelling…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 08 Nov 2011

It is during Melancholia's second half, after a ruinous conclusion to the wedding, that the real magic happens, with our heroine hardened into…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 08 Nov 2011

Melancholia is his latest pile of undiluted drivel, nauseatingly filmed by a wonky hand-held camera and featuring a crazy, mismatched ensemble…

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