... The film is packed with subtle, feminist riffs on romantic movie clichés...

| Sep 21, 2017

Helen is really rad and funny and brave.

| Dec 5, 2016

"Wetlands" tells a fairly conventional story in about the most unconventional ways imaginable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2014

Even if Wetlands were far less entertaining, it would still be a calling card for Juri's star-is-born performance. The beguiled viewer watches her and thinks, "Bingo!"

| Oct 16, 2014

An absurdly simplistic family drama; the movie's apparent audacity isn't even skin deep.

| Sep 22, 2014

Yes, you could call Wetlands the anal anti-Amélie, but-although Wnendt is nowhere near as stylistically pedantic-this film has a certain Jeunet-like flamboyance that you'll either love or hate.

| Sep 18, 2014

Crass, vulgar, and brilliant.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2014

The film's gleeful defying of taboos would not succeed without Juri in the starring role.

| Sep 15, 2014

Shocking and outrageous -- but in the best way possible.

| Sep 13, 2014

Wetlands is one of the most daring, visually arresting, innovative, and imaginative examples of filmmaking to come out of Europe in recent memory.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 12, 2014

Its nastiness sings, instead of stings.

| Sep 11, 2014

Graphic, occasionally disgusting but sweet-natured and liberated.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2014

It isn't terribly clear where the movie - or its hedonistic heroine - is going, but getting there is one wild ride.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2014

"Wetlands" is more than just a film that shares far more about anal fissures than you ever wanted to know, it's a surprisingly sweet coming-of-age comedy brimming with punk-rock energy and an impressive performance from Swiss actress Carla Juri.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 5, 2014

Women deserve their own gross-out movies, and, in Wetlands, the punk force is strong.

| Sep 5, 2014

An inventively sharp, briskly edited, spectacularly-acted post-adolescent coming-of-age story.

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

With her dirty-blond curls and angelic smile, Helen is fully alive in a way that's all too rare on our movie screens. She's not out to shock or sicken; that's your problem, not hers.

| Sep 4, 2014

Helen's view of life and sex may be unusual, but it's far healthier -- if that word has any meaning -- than, say, the pseudo-philosophy of Lars von Trier's joyless Nymphomaniac.

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

Wetlands is here to freak out the prudes and make "dirty" fun again. That it does. You won't find a better movie anywhere that features a teen girl using her crotch to wipe a public toilet seat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2014

For its general ludic obsession with all things generally thought of as disgusting, the German film Wetlands is stuck in the anal stage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2014