Depressing though the theme of the film is. it has a weird fascination all its own.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2020

Explores the jaded days of witch hunts, while plumbing the depths as a direct parallel for Nazi power and the plight of Jewish people during the latter days of World War II.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 5, 2019

Dreyer's impious, anarchic drama is a cry of rage at abusive authority, whether political, familial, religious, or moral; he celebrates erotic love as the natural order of things.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2016

Dreyer goes to the Christian heart of the matter in this film. Damned powerful.

Full Review | Original Score: 87/100 | Jul 13, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

This masterwork is as modern as Euripides, timeless as O'Neill and Arthur Miller, militant as Friedan or Steinem, and empathetically devastating as Hawthorne.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2011

Anne is a romantic trapped in a vengeful world. Thus, she's doomed.

Full Review | Nov 22, 2010

However bleak, Day of Wrath is a masterpiece. See it.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2008

I'd be saving a spot for it near the top of my 10-best list if the movie hadn't been made 65 years ago.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2008

A stark, brooding treatment of adultery, incest, and murder, an elemental tragedy not so far from a James M. Cain triangle, albeit shot so as to deliberately evoke the Dutch masters.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2008

Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1943 masterpiece begins as a film about seventeenth-century witch hunts in Northern Europe, but it's really a psychological thriller about the pull of evil on weak souls.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2008

Dryer's precision proves highly effective in creating the film's mood of dark oppression, and every detail is perfectly in keeping with the film's tone %u2013 which often resembles a thriller.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2008

Dreyer's fluid, softly moving camera that takes in long, slow shots heightens the sensual nature of the film as well as its mystery.

Full Review | Feb 29, 2008

Astonishing in its artistically informed period re-creation as well as its hypnotic mise en scene, it challenges the viewer by suggesting at times that witchcraft isn't so much an illusion as an activity produced by intolerance.

Full Review | Jan 19, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 18, 2006

There couldn't be a clearer statement made about the powerful who persecute their subjects in the name of religion.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Jul 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2004