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(2013)

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83
At its best, the film doesn't strain for meaning but instead treats all of its intellectualizing as a lark that can be taken seriously but doesn't need to be.
83
At its best, the film doesn't strain for meaning but instead treats all of its intellectualizing as a lark that can be taken seriously but doesn't need to be.
80
Thought-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.
80
A rich movie, seductive when abandoning people for falling snow or bleak nature and funny, painful and unflinching when it gets physical.
80
The point is that you could watch these films for four hours, then spend 14 arguing about them - about whether sex, for vor Trier, is an eternal human mystery, or a cosmic joke at our expense.
80
With thoughtfulness and passion, von Trier strives to give his audience a high, accompanied by the meaning of the high.
80
Volume two gets down in ways the first half doesn't, although anything resembling real sensuality remains MIA.
80
It'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.
80
We're never far from Von Trier, and both Skarsgård and Gainsbourg appear to offer different versions of the author himself.
80
It 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.
75
Vol. II is less focused than “Vol. I” - less funny, too, although there are a few dank laughs - and you feel Von Trier's inspiration and energy start to flag during the final laps.
75
I wonder how people will feel about the final moment of the film. I thought it was great, albeit extremely cynical.
67
If 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.
63
Volume 2 picks up the story with an older Joe, now played by Gainsbourg, with her watchful sad face showing the character's unsatisfied hunger. It seems more von Trier's script than any great social taboos that cause Joe to go into free fall in a world that becomes more kinky and sinister.
63
Much like the first film, Nymphomaniac Vol.2 isn't remotely erotic or a turn-on - it's a curiously intellectual experience that doesn't move you below the neck, including the heart.
63
Vol. II turns into a battle (like most von Trier films) between the filmmaker's baser instincts and his searching ones.
50
A clear case of a narrative running out of steam. Exhaustingly repetitive, this movie attempts many of the same things its predecessor did but with less succes.
50
Given the scarcity of movies about lust from the female point of view, this is kind of a bummer.
50
With raw shock and a riveting Uma Thurman absent this time, Nymphomaniac: Volume II is a metaphoric limp dick.
38
The sex in Nymphomaniac is inhuman, mechanical, boring, and predictably viewed through the (male) scrim of someone who characterizes women solely as withholders.
25
There are phony movies made every week, but this is in a different category - a phony movie that seems a distortion of something real, a phony movie offered in place of the real movie von Trier could have made, but it would have cost him something. Some blood, some truth, some soul. What we're left with instead is an empty gesture.
0
Here we go again. Danish director Lars von Trier has pumped out Nymphomaniac: Vol II just a few weeks after “Vol. I” came out. And the results are the same: zero stars.
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