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

| 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.

| 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.

| Feb 22, 2016

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

| 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.

| Jul 14, 2011

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

| Nov 22, 2010

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

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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