It's precisely because I see the merits of his form that I find its overly mindful digressions into self-indulgence tiresome.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2022

In this ending, Lars von Trier takes another step towards the abyss, demonstrating his mastery of the story. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 4, 2021

A jarring narcissistic expression of artisitic desires and a brutal confrontation on the vulgarity of...

Full Review | Original Score: 96/100 | Sep 3, 2021

Lars Von Trier grabs your head and shoves it into the vortex of any subject he chooses to examine (...) it's never a pleasant journey, but he always delivers the goods.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

It's certainly not a film for the faint of heart, but rest assured; Jack absolutely gets his in the end, and when it happens, you will be thoroughly satisfied.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2021

It does break down some really interesting and taboo subjects... I thought it's actually funny how pretentious it is and almost self-aware.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 19, 2021

The House That Jack Built is both one of 2018's best films and, I can easily say, a film that I'll likely never watch again.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

As the film progresses into its last stretches, it proves itself to be bizarrely satisfying, recontextualizing itself into something much grander in sadness and scope.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2020

I'm not saying it works entirely, but it is endlessly fascinating and highly indulgent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2020

Von Trier does just that: provoke, but returning to the brilliance by which his style has been characterized, employing the most rupture formalism to create something new in the psychological horror genre. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 27, 2020

The House That Jack Built is the best kind of cinema, the kind that provokes and challenges the viewer to digest the horrors on screen and deconstruct it layer by disturbing layer to discover the filmmaker's true message.

Full Review | May 29, 2020

It's a savage, jaw-droppingly offensive portrait of a murderer that happens to also be vast, immaculately crafted, chillingly musical.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2019

The House That Jack Built is not the blood-dripped, ultra-violent, traumatising spectacle that I expected from Von Trier, but it is a sophisticated slice of serial killer satisfaction.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 14, 2019

For 152 minutes, we're taken on this journey through increasingly volatile and repugnant situations .. until we supposedly come out ... with a renewed sense of knowledge.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 20, 2019

A film that presents a duality: Being wonderful and repulsive at the same time. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 3, 2019

Von Trier's work here is as bland as anything in his career.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 3, 2019

In filmmaker Lars von Trier's nose-thumbing horror House, Matt Dillon, up for anything, plays a cerebral, OCD-afflicted, serial killer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 23, 2019

A great film this is not

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2019

A profound examination of how an artist works, how an artist deals with failure, and also how people respond to horror or other violence in art.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 1, 2019

Unfortunately, the serial-killer-as-artiste trope is a little culturally exhausted, and von Trier's attempts to liven it up don't really work.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 12, 2019