Dancer in the Dark 2000

Critics score:
68 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Strange, cerebral, immensely interesting and weirdly, thoroughly distancing, Dancer in the Dark is a movie like they used to make 'em. Read more

Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: It's a carefully crafted provocation that both undermines and expands the notion of what makes a movie musical. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Come to the theater prepared, with a handkerchief in one hand and a rotten tomato in the other. Read more

Toronto Star: Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: [Von Trier] manages to generate big emotions out of meager material, mainly thanks to the performances he gets from his actors. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: So exasperating in its contradictions, so frustrating in its fakery, so deeply irritating in its pretensions, it's frankly hard to know where to begin to dissect it. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: This movie, for all its flaws, is a unique journey, and needs to be experienced rather than explained. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Graced with a particular genius for absorbing the past to suggest an exciting cinematic future. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: At least Dancer in the Dark is bad in a complicated way. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Selma asks for so little, complains so seldom, and is in such perpetual denial about her problems that I find her virtually indigestible as a character. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's not just that the numbers are berserkly bad; they also don't seem to have any emotional connection to this bedraggled, Dickensian waif. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A thought-provoking, emotionally resonant, and innovative cinematic experience. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It smashes down the walls of habit that surround so many movies. It returns to the wellsprings. It is a bold, reckless gesture. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: A numbing, nearly three-hour musical. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: It's great to see a movie so courageous and affecting, so committed to its own differentness. Read more

Time Out: Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: The crazy thing is that, sarcastic as Dancer is, it actually works as an anti-capital- punishment tract. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Like the movie created around her, [Bjork is] nothing short of hypnotic. Read more