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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time Out LondonDave CalhounTime Out LondonDave CalhounWe’re never far from Von Trier, and both Skarsgård and Gainsbourg appear to offer different versions of the author himself.
- 80The GuardianXan BrooksThe GuardianXan BrooksIt is so laden with highly charged set pieces, so dappled with haunting ideas and bold flights of fancy that it finally achieves a kind of slow-burn transcendence.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyVolume two gets down in ways the first half doesn't, although anything resembling real sensuality remains MIA.
- 80VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeIt’s one thing to declare sex a fact of life and insist that audiences confront their unease at seeing it depicted (or, equally constructive, their intense excitation at its mere mention), but quite another to fashion a fictional woman’s life around nothing but sex. As courageously depicted by Gainsbourg, Jo is ultimately a tragic character.
- 80EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanA rich movie, seductive when abandoning people for falling snow or bleak nature and funny, painful and unflinching when it gets physical.
- 80Total FilmTotal FilmThought-provoking rather than arousing, both films explore the director’s ideas about love, sexuality and loneliness. The organ he seeks to stimulate most is your brain.
- 67The PlaylistThe PlaylistIf you thought Vol. I was a brilliant piece of provocation, then Vol. II might disappoint you with its detour into (relative) conventionality, its attacks on arthouse artificiality, and its apparently very different politics. But if you found Vol. I to be as silly as some did, then Vol. II suggests something interesting: Lars von Trier might agree.