From The Movie Snob:

Dogville (C-). This is a weird and very dark movie. I use the word "movie" loosely, because it's really a filmed play with the actors moving around on a single stage the whole time. The set is minimalist, with the houses of the tiny town of Dogville represented solely by white outlines on the stage floor. Nicole Kidman (beautiful as ever) is Grace, a fugitive from mobsters who happens upon Dogville as a hiding place, and the townspeople are at first suspicious, then welcoming, and then start to turn suspicious again. Much ado has been made of the film's anti-Americanism (the director is Danish), but the setting is so generic, and all the characters except Grace are so reprehensible, that I detected a more universal message: all humanity is loathsome, not just Americans. Be warned that there are some scenes of extreme cruelty that, although not graphic in Kill Bill style, are still hard to stomach. Only the strangely satisfying ending rescued this movie from a much lower grade.