VonTrier is on his game here.
Nymphomaniacravishes the brain and leaves you begging for more.
It remains formidable throughout its four-hour length and demanding to think about afterward.
Von Trier plays with our expectations.
The film provides a shifting variety of insights, emotions, unexpected lightness and moments of visceral shock.
Von Trier creates episodes of brilliant verbal repartee, ludicrous slapstick comedy and piercing emotional power, often overlapping.