Editing Manderlay (section)

==Reception==

===Critical reception===
''Manderlay'' received mixed reviews from critics. {{As of|2022|03}}, the film holds a 50% approval rating on review aggregation site [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 103 reviews with an average rating of 5.70/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "''Manderlay'' may work better as a political statement than as a film, making its points at the expense of telling a compelling story."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/manderlay|title=Manderlay (2006)|access-date=22 June 2020|via=www.rottentomatoes.com}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted average]] score of 46 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{Citation |title=Manderlay Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/manderlay |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=2022-03-20}}</ref>

Anthony Lane of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' said, "Von Trier is not so much a filmmaker as a misanthropic mesmerist, who uses movies to bend the viewer to his humorless will,"<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/02/06/job-discrimination|title=Job Discrimination|first=Anthony|last=Lane|magazine=The New Yorker |date=29 January 2006|via=www.newyorker.com}}</ref> while Josh Kun of the ''Los Angeles Times'' added, "Trier gets lost in his own rhetoric."<ref>{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060206032402/http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-manderlay3feb03%2C0%2C7527649.story |url=http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-manderlay3feb03,0,7527649.story? |archive-date=6 February 2006 |date=3 February 2006 |first=Josh |last=Kun |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |title=Manderlay |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Conversely, ''[[The Guardian]]'' film critic [[Peter Bradshaw]] and [[Roger Ebert]] both gave the film mildly positive reviews. While noting, "Many moviegoers are likely to like the film less than the discussion it drags them into," Ebert opined, "The crucial difference between ''Manderlay'' and the almost unbearable ''Dogville'' is not that [von Trier's] politics have changed, but that his sense of mercy for the audience has been awakened."<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060216/REVIEWS/602160306/1023 ''Manderlay'' – Roger Ebert]</ref> Peter Bradshaw claimed that ''Manderlay'' "is a wind-up, but an effective wind-up," and wrote of von Trier's Land of Opportunities trilogy, "My guess is you can throw away the first and third movies and keep this one."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2006/mar/03/2 | title=Manderlay | newspaper=The Guardian | first=Peter | last=Bradshaw | date=3 March 2006 | access-date=24 April 2016 }}</ref>

===Box office===
The film took a total of $674,918 from 12 countries.<ref name="mojo">{{cite web | url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=manderlay.htm | title=Manderlay (2006) | publisher=Box Office Mojo | access-date=24 April 2016 }}</ref>

===Accolades===
''Manderlay'' was entered into the [[2005 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4271486/year/2005.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Manderlay |access-date=2009-12-06|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>