The Idiots works as a situationist provocation about a situationist provocation, though claiming the sentimental high ground at the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2023

Not everyone's cup of tea and, indeed, not a cup of tea at all, but one of those extremely rare films that aren't content to leave the cinema as they found it.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2017

The first Dogme film of enfant terrible Lars von Trier challenges viewers to reexamine their social mores and cinema habits of voyeurism and pleasure.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 16, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A worthy experiment.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2005

For all the Dogme-ordained restrictions to make the film feel "real," it ends up feeling more artificial.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2004

The least you can say for it is that's it's truly brazen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2004

Not bad for a dogme movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Caustic, brutally funny, and more passionate than perhaps anything [Von Trier's] ever done.

Full Review | Original Score: short | Mar 7, 2002

Von Trier has proven his self-proclamations of cinematic genius to be true.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 5, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 7, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 61/100 | May 29, 2001

The Idiots suggests that if Danish iconoclast Lars von Trier's filmsare getting tougher, they're also continuing to reward the patient.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 14, 2001