With the portrait of the suicidal lover, Scherfig searches for an irony that loses its ingenuity when the melodrama makes sense and leaves the main text in a kind of reductionist void. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 5, 2020

What's most intriguing about director Lone Scherfig's first post-Dogme 95 feature, the admittedly appealing Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, is where and how it falls short.

| Jul 25, 2017

A nice little love triangle drama-comedy about suicide and bookstores.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

...the kind of picture one is more inclined to admire than embrace

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 29, 2005

Lone Scherfig has masterfully combined rather dark, serious topics with a little humor and a lot of humanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2005

Scherfig presents the message with a creative flair that will appeal to indie film lovers who appreciate well drawn characters

| Original Score: B- | Aug 29, 2004

Feels schematic, contrived and less genuine.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 6, 2004

Wilbur is less about adherence to cinematic restrictions than it is about characters, and Scherfig was able to coax subtle, comic performances from her actors.

| Jun 4, 2004

Although at times too low-key, Wilbur is a humorous and strangely uplifting film about death and dying.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2004

More plainly dreary than morosely captivating... a movie that seems rather irresolute about exactly what sort of feelings it's hypothetically meant to be conjuring up.

| Original Score: D+ | May 31, 2004

It's certain parts of the film that I enjoy rather than the film as a whole.

| Original Score: B- | May 27, 2004

You may laugh, but you won't always like yourself for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2004

Amid the bloody pulp that is cinema this season, the director of "Italian for Beginners" offers a fresh look at the old death wish.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 17, 2004

You can almost believe that Sives and Rawlins are brothers, while the oft-used Henderson ... is solid, as usual.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2004

These fragile, self-destructive people, practically in spite of themselves, manage to charm their way into our hearts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2004

Wilbur is strangely romantic, but in no way sentimental.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2004

Scherfig shows a flair for comic melancholy ... as well as eccentric characters like Wilbur, who initially comes across as off-putting and self-obsessed, but later becomes, if not exactly warm, at least sympathetic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2004

These are characters who are quite worth spending a few hours with.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2004

Wilbur has the ability to suck you in, to make you cheer on the strangest of indulgent families.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 13, 2004