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Sara Stewart, New York Post: Take note, Lars von Trier: This is how you do a truly funny, subversive movie about a woman's obsession with the human body and sex. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Even if Wetlands were far less entertaining, it would still be a calling card for Juri's star-is-born performance. The beguiled viewer watches her and thinks, "Bingo!" Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: Wetlands might have landed with the thud of empty shock value were Helen not such an innately engaging character, or Juri so commanding in the role. Read more
Jenni Miller, AV Club: Wetlands is wonderfully filthy and wildly perverse, occasionally funny, and even a little sad. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Wetlands" tells a fairly conventional story in about the most unconventional ways imaginable. Read more
David Ehrlich, Film.com: A visually playful story of a girl finding herself from the inside out. Read more
Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter: An accessible, stylish and ultimately even sweet film. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Its nastiness sings, instead of stings. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: An absurdly simplistic family drama; the movie's apparent audacity isn't even skin deep. Read more
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: With her dirty-blond curls and angelic smile, Helen is fully alive in a way that's all too rare on our movie screens. She's not out to shock or sicken; that's your problem, not hers. Read more
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: Wetlands is one of the most daring, visually arresting, innovative, and imaginative examples of filmmaking to come out of Europe in recent memory. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Wetlands is here to freak out the prudes and make "dirty" fun again. That it does. You won't find a better movie anywhere that features a teen girl using her crotch to wipe a public toilet seat. Read more
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: Crass, vulgar, and brilliant. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Dank with the effluvia of a proudly unhygienic, sex-obsessed German teen, this frenetic adaptation of Charlotte Roche's notorious 2008 best-seller is a standing dare to anyone who thinks the movies have gotten too tame. Read more
Nick Schager, Village Voice: A captivating go-for-broke lead turn by Juri lends the film a poignancy to help offset the juvenile shock-tactic impulses. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Women deserve their own gross-out movies, and, in Wetlands, the punk force is strong. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It isn't terribly clear where the movie - or its hedonistic heroine - is going, but getting there is one wild ride. Read more