Von Trier plumbs the depths yet again

Painfully incoherent, disgustingly misogynistic and suffused with a radioactive self-loathing, The House That Jack Built is essentially cinematic clickbait

Riley Keough and Matt Dillon in The House That Jack Built

Cinema

The House That Jack Built: Directed by Lars von Trier, Selected, 18,Rating:*

Mortal Engines: Directed by Christian Rivers, nationwide, 12A,Rating:***

Urgh. A new Lars von Trier film. Yuck. Cinema’s greatest misanthropic provocateur, according to himself, returns after a couple of years in the wilderness with this irredeemably unpleasant film that follows the fortunes of an architect turned serial killer Jack (Matt Dillon) plying his grim trade in the American Northwest through the ...