Hadewijch
Metascore
83 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
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  1. New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Reviewed by: Mike Scott
    Feb 11, 2011
    38
    Dumont's fans might find this latest exercise enjoyable, but his style of filmmaking is an acquired taste. I doubt those without that taste are going to acquire it here.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Jan 6, 2011
    100
    Dumont makes movies that almost nobody wants to see. That doesn't make him a great filmmaker, but he's a great filmmaker all the same.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Dec 25, 2010
    90
    If Hadewijch is Mr. Dumont's most overtly religious film, it is not pro-faith in any specific way, although the director clearly respects the religious impulse.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    Dec 25, 2010
    75
    An exploration of the power of religion -- should delight Dumont's fans. For others, it will take a bit of getting used to. The effort will prove to be worthwhile.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    Dec 23, 2010
    80
    With Hadewijch, he (Dumont) endorses something like the Dardenne brothers' rugged, squalid secular humanism, offering the barrier-breaking embrace as vague alternative to Despair, Church, or Capital.
  6. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    Dec 23, 2010
    90
    Bruno Dumont's Hadewijch is one of two small-release art films this season that deliver nuanced and fascinating portraits of faith.
  7. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Barbara Goslawski
    Dec 22, 2010
    80
    As in "L'Humanité" and "Twentynine Palms," the director presents a cogent study of emotional excess with a sure handed control that harkens back to Robert Bresson.
  8. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Joshua Rothkopf
    Dec 22, 2010
    80
    There's a darker, fanatical side to blindness too-and this is the movie to show it. Leave all judgments behind.

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