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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's a long slog, not because what the film says is provocative but because the technique is as slack as the writing. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: If Jamie Bell can't rescue a movie, it's probably not salvageable. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: For a film that explores the nuances of this complicated issue, I suggest you rent Gus Van Sant's Elephant. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Dear Wendy is loaded with ideas, some half-baked, some dead-on, some just stupid, and Vinterberg throws them at the screen willy-nilly. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: An allegory on guns and violence in America that is all the more resounding for its acutely observed foreigners' perspective. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The audience is clearly expected to enjoy the bloodbath even while it disapproves. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Dear Wendy 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 more
Newsday: The location is nowhere, the characters' diction is beyond stylized and Novella Nelson plays Dick's maid. Miner families with maids? Maybe in Denmark. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Like the Dandies, Vinterberg and Von Trier are fascinated by something they despise, and despise it even more for fascinating them. And in the end, like the Dandies, Vinterberg and Von Trier still don't know the first thing about it. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: 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 more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A tedious exercise in style, intended as a meditation on guns and violence in America but more of a meditation on itself, the kind of meditation that invites the mind to stray. Read more
Michael Posner, Globe and Mail: We get it, Lars. Actually, we got it some time ago. Guns are bad things. They kill people and Americans are obsessed with them. Can we move on now? Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Although Dear Wendy, like most things Von Trier's name is attached to these days, has been widely attacked for selling a naive and ersatz version of American gun culture, what's most interesting about it is just how unapologetically unreal it is. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Especially in the climactic, clumsily staged gunfight, the prevailing mode is wide-eyed idiocy -- which might be the point. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The scenario's practically straitjacketed in commentary. Von Trier's weak story doesn't help. Read more