Tweets from critics attending The House That Jack Built premiere describe a "vile," "gross," "torturous," "pathetic," "vomitive" movie, loaded with mutilation, especially of women and children.

“The House That Jack Built” grinds on, and it may be the dullest film about serial killing in the history of dull movies about serial ... a mother and two children in a field in one sequence ...

“The House That Jack Built” is that film. A serial-killer howdunnit replete with graphic depictions of the killings and mutilations of men, women and children, it is a repulsive thing to ...

The thriller is from director Lars von Trier, who showed the movie at the ... von Trier’s ‘The House That Jack Built,’ which depicts the mutilation of women and children,” Variety New ...

When you come back with a movie ... children to spark waves of walkouts. It seems a direct FU to the current climate of reckoning over gender bias and sexual misconduct when the unrepentant Jack ...

Lars von Trier is back in Cannes after a seven-year ban has been lifted and he's brought a controversy-packed movie ... and at 155 minutes, The House That Jack Built unfurls at its own slow ...

and ends, literally, in hell. In between those two particular poles of depravity, Lars von Trier‘s The House That Jack Built “treats” viewers to a litany of violent images: stranglings ...

“The House That Jack Built” first impresses as a sitcom involving a large and uproarious ethnic household. Jack (E.J. Bonilla) moves his entire clan into a multi-family brownstone in the Bronx ...

Nevertheless, “The House That Jack Built” could easily devolve into bloated B-movie territory if it lacked ... a terrible sequence in which he murders two children and forces their mother ...

The House That Jack Built saw its official trailer release ... And while it does at first read similar to hundreds of horror movies before it, the auteur’s aesthetic and wry sense of humor ...