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

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

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

| Oct 18, 2008

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

| Jan 26, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Ironically, through this anti-auteurist effort, Vinterberg, cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, and the unflappable cast have created a virtuosic work.

| Jan 1, 2000

Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration mixes farce and tragedy so completely that it challenges us to respond at all.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The plot and the style are both founded on deceptive appearances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

At a time when filmmaking so often falls back on the familiar, its effect indeed manages to be excitingly inventive and pure.

| Jan 1, 2000