A sexy bore. Completely unsure what attracted Cronenberg to this, but he's on autopilot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2025

A richly complicated tale that finds pioneers lost in their own frontier.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 3, 2023

An intelligent, appealing and viciously interesting film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 7, 2021

It's talky and conceptual and intellectual and extremely dry. But, if you pay attention, it is also extremely erotic and emotional.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2021

In the end, the film covers considerably far too much territory with artistic equipment and intellectual technique not highly developed enough for the work.

| Feb 12, 2021

Viggo Mortensen, as well, has proven mighty successful in working with David Cronenberg and strikes gold again.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Cronenberg plays the material straight down the line, employing renowned playwright, Christopher Hampton, and relying on the experienced trio of lead actors to get on with it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2020

A Dangerous Method crafts a fascinating, tragic heroine from a woman history has overlooked.

| Jan 16, 2020

Dare to face the dangers of the mind with A Dangerous Method.

| Nov 26, 2019

A subtle and refined look at two pillars of psychology who helped define a modern medical field.

| Original Score: 3.2/5 | Nov 8, 2019

More likely, most audiences will come away having had the good time that comes from a piece that is erudite, truthful and dark -- and funny because of all of these things.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 8, 2019

David Cronenberg has made a very good movie about the intellectual relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. But he could have made a great one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2019

Given time to immerse itself in your subconscious, A Dangerous Method will no doubt linger with you like an uncomfortable presence in the recesses of your memory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2018

For anyone who loves Cronenberg's work, or meaty historical drama, A Dangerous Method is a treat.

| May 23, 2018

The contrast between the characters... is very rich, both in the dialogues and in the attitudes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 20, 2018

The film shocks with its sheer stateliness, its almost quiet abstraction of tumultuous melodrama.

| Nov 16, 2017

A Dangerous Method reveals the emotional violence that bubbles below the surface of Hampton's witty repartee.

| Oct 3, 2017

More a romance and study of power than a history of psychoanalysis, the film manages to be reasonably entertaining and very well acted, though psychology buffs will probably find themselves wishing for more substance to the storyline.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2017

[Keira] Knightley brilliantly conveys the illness and vulnerability of Spielrein.

| Sep 18, 2017

But, all in all, the movie is quite good and deserves more than one viewing just to keep up with the enthralling consecutive dialogues and often profound one-liners...

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017