An incredibly moving and emotionally profound psychosexual epic is cheapened on a devastating scale by the director's juvenile humor, tiresome desire to shock, and finally, by his need to end Nymphomaniac with an underwhelming and ugly touch of irony.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2022

The second and final volume of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac discounts the sexual freedom a woman can and should enjoy and trivializes the compulsive, damaging nature of addiction.

| Jan 22, 2022

In this second part, much of the beauty and wonder from Volume 1 are gone (and missed). Thankfully, some humor remains, but Lars Von Trier breaks many things I'd rather have left unbroken.

| Jan 11, 2020

Een though she is the narrator of her own tale, Joe doesn't come across as a fully-formed character.

| Original Score: 3.2/5 | Nov 22, 2019

At times uncomfortable, compelling, and repellant, Joe and Seligman are finally allowed to emerge as more realized characters in this second half, though never quite as fully as we'd like.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

It is brash, bold, erotic, messy, mesmerizing, and ultimately cathartic; a kind of neo-feminist allegory that synthesizes sex, philosophy, religion, and politics as only Von Trier could do it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 7, 2019

Nymphomaniac's second volume does exhibit some interesting feminist commentary, but this is mostly lost in a flood of ideas - some formed, others stillborn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2019

Culminating in an operatic high as the initial tome gives way to its successor, Volume 2 returns von Trier to almost Antichrist levels of masochism and bodily abuse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2019

The transgressive, audience-bating angle of von Trier's storytelling does start to feel more than a little tired and unconvincing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2018

The 5.5 hours of the full version will have to be seen, but the second one disappoints a little... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 12, 2017

The most interesting pieces of art are often the messy, dirty ones; the canvases we're not sure whether to ridicule for their lunacy or embrace for their sheer, inspired originality.

| Oct 25, 2017

Its riskiness and lack of restraint are admirable, necessary even; the films' indulgences are all of a piece with its boldness and brilliance. It feels like an uncut bag of pure Von Trier.

| Jun 18, 2016

Yes, Lars von Trier could've been f*cking with us this whole time, but he's never done so without reasonable purpose.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 6, 2016

I can no longer tolerate Lars von Trier.

| Apr 12, 2016

Provocative, droll, fearless, and cinematically sexual in unprecedented ways, "Nymphomaniac" (in its proper unedited form) is a four-hour movie with an unknown potential to alter reality.

| Original Score: A | Dec 11, 2014

It's self-referential and self-rewarding to the point that it has virtually no other content.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 27, 2014

It's either one of the worst pornos ever made or one of Von Trier's best films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2014

"How awful that everything has to be so trivial," Joe says. Maybe life has to be trivial, but movies don't, unless you're a certain Danish director who wants to force his psychosis on the viewing public.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 13, 2014

Von Trier creates an effective tone that suggests a powerful force is yanking its characters through an emotional kaleidoscope with unforgiving conviction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2014

'Fill all my holes, please,' Joe pleads, but her request is futile: She's too hollow ever to be filled.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2014