Vinterberg is able to work with the shocking claim and the farce of familial gatherings and personal faults in one of the more refreshing movies of the time.

| Feb 22, 2023

The Celebration transcends the movement, even while its narrative exists in symbolic, dramatic harmony with Dogme 95's attitude toward cinematic conventions.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

There's no denying that some of the Dogme strictures inject urgency and surprise into what could have been a tediously static affair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2020

This is family drama at its most coruscating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2020

I'll be thinking about this movie for a long time to come.

| Sep 22, 2020

This may sound pretentious, but it works.

| Sep 22, 2020

A funny, volatile, visually dynamic story about the unraveling of one extended family during the course of a patriarchal 60th-birthday dinner.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

The Celebration is founded on a cheeky display of cinephilic self-promotion.

| Aug 21, 2009

The more this film's results are measured against its rhetoric, the more callow and unsatisfying it seems.

| Oct 18, 2008

gripping and devastatingly powerful

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2008

An assured, admirably abrasive little movie which never outstays its welcome.

| Jan 26, 2006

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

Best of the 'Dogme' fims, which isn't saying much, but there you go.

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

Extraordinary...It is a celebration, not of a sham birthday party, but of the transformative power of truth.

| Aug 6, 2004

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

A major triumph for the Dogme group, and a success from any point of view.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 9, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 1, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 8, 2003