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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 Trier's politics have changed, but that his sense of mercy for the audience has been awakened.

" Peter Bradshaw claimed that Manderlay " is a wind-up, but an effective wind-up ," and wrote of von Trier's Land of Opportunies trilogy, " My guess is you can throw away the first and third movies and keep this one.