Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe's work as covered on Movie Habit

• Asteroid City (2023)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Matt Anderson: Asteroid City craters.

• The Northman (2022)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Matt Anderson: It's a cold, tedious journey to redemption.

• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Matt Anderson: The trouble stems from Peter himself this time around.

• Nightmare Alley (2021)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Matt Anderson: The slow, precise journey is a hard sell with a payoff that isn’t entirely worth the effort.

• The Lighthouse (2019)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Matt Anderson: Think about how the filmmaking and presentation choices impact the material.

• Nymphomaniac Vol. II (2014)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Robert Denerstein: Von Trier continues the torment

• Out of the Furnace (2013)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Robert Denerstein: Intense acting doesn't save Furnce from the fires

• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Marty Mapes: More Lynch than Herzog, story of murder and madness feels weird

• Antichrist (2009)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Robert Denerstein: Are the ideas expressed in Antichrist worth the ordeal?

• Adam Resurrected (2008)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Marty Mapes: The ending throws away the complexity that makes the rest of the movie so interesting

• Inside Man (2006)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Matt Anderson: What exactly is going on is a mystery through much of the movie

  DVD review by Matt Anderson: Inside Man is a single-disc DVD that comes packed with a trove of worthwhile supplemental features

• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Marty Mapes: Entertaining enough to earn a recommendation as a light piece of eye candy

  DVD review by Marty Mapes: The Life Aquatic becomes more dear and more impressive the more you learn about it

• The Clearing (2004)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Marty Mapes: Competent, but not brilliant, kinapping tale has a great cast

• The Reckoning (2004)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Marty Mapes

• Finding Nemo (2003)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  DVD review by Marty Mapes: Extra features in this two-disc set are more "clever" than interesting

  Review by Matt Anderson

• The Boondock Saints (1999)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  DVD review by Matt Anderson: Judge for thyself

• Platoon (1986)

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  DVD review by Marty Mapes: Oliver Stone's genre-defining Vietnam movie

• A Most Wanted Man

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Robert Denerstein: Cobijn doesn't totally conquer le Carré's complicated plot

  Review by Marty Mapes: Kudos to Hoffman in this good-enough le Carré spy tale

• John Carter

  Willem Dafoe, Actor

  Review by Matt Anderson: John Carter is a $250 million throwback to 1950s pulp sci-fi spectacle.

  Review by Robert Denerstein: John Carter aims at Mars, but misses