Dogville quotes
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Dogville is no different from von Trier's earlier parables of vulnerability and brutality. And like those works, it is the staggering, infuriating work of a visionary filmmaker.
Lisa Kennedy in The Denver Post
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Dogville is not a cry of rage against America — it's a cry of rage against all mankind. It demands to be seen but not to be loved.
Joshua Tanzer in OFFOFFOFF
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Dogville is not a masterpiece, nor is it an embarrassment. But it is a cinematic Rorschach test, as much fun to praise and to scorn as it is to watch.
Chris Vognar in The Dallas Morning News
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Dogville isn't for everyone, but there's some intellectually stimulating conversation fodder for those with the patience to navigate the film's rough terrain.
James Berardinelli in Reelviews
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For a movie with such bold visual designs and high-flown rhetorical ambitions, it seems almost reactionary to say that it works because the performances are so good.
Nick Davis at Nick's Flick Picks
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For all the plot detours and dead spots, this is strong, stinging filmmaking. Von Trier, light years from the formula doggerel at the multiplex, delivers something rare these days: a film of ideas.
Peter Travers in Rolling Stone 
(24 March 2004)
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For courage and sheer audacity in form and plot, no filmmaker on the world stage currently matches Lars von Trier... Make of the provocation what you will, but don't miss this completely unique and extraordinary movie by one of the world's most adventurous directors on top of his game.
Jürgen Fauth at About.com
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For passion, originality, and sustained chutzpah, this austere allegory of failed Christian charity and Old Testament payback is von Trier's strongest movie — a masterpiece, in fact.
J. Hoberman in The Village Voice
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Has rarely been far from my mind in the 10 months following Cannes, during which time it has grown only richer, deeper and more complex than I initially estimated.
Scott Foundas in L.A. Weekly
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I hate it, yet I'm fascinated by the magnitude of the ambition and the failure to realize it.
Bruce Kirkland in Jam! Movies
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Imprints itself on the consciousness and hauntingly lingers
Arthur Lazere, Culturevulture.net
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It is a valiant but risky attempt and, truth be told, it is only partially successful.
Michael Elliott, Movie Parables
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It really is a masterpiece — von Trier's first, as it happens.
Glenn Kenny, Premiere magazine
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It stalks silently, stark with its minimalism at first, and then pounces unexpectedly with an overwhelming wash of emotion like a rabid animal, with sharp piercing teeth.
Michael Szymanski at Zap2it.com
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It's a bleak view of humanity expounded here, giving much food for thought, and for meditation on the concepts of humanity, tolerance, acceptance.
Jean Lowerison in The San Diego Metropolitan