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

It makes for an absorbing drama and leaves the mustiness of cigars in the theatre.

| Jun 20, 2013

Both Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen are impressive, but the film belongs to Keira Knightley, who gives a quite astonishing performance, one modelled closely on existing film of women patients who suffered from this kind of hysteria.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2012

Keira can act! She really can.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2012

When you start to feel nostalgic for the late Ken Russell, you know something is wrong . . . 

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 9, 2012

Cronenberg dissects the early days of psychoanalysis here in a precisely plotted, superficially genteel costume drama, but one in which eruptions of kinky violence are never far off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2012

Cronenberg has created a drama of male hysterics with no interest in diagnosing their own condition - perhaps the career of each is a continuous, elaborate symptom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2012

Infinitely assured moviemaking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2012

Knightley gives a fair performance but lumbers herself with a distracting accent, and her gurning in the early scenes may be too much for some to bear.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2012

It never really gets under the skin in the way Cronenberg does at his best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2012

In many ways, this film can almost be construed as the director's most insidious and disturbing drama yet, the carcasses left strewn upon the ideological battlefield at the end of this one as tragically devastating as they come.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2012

The true story is extraordinary; the film is not, although the actors are all fine.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 20, 2012

Like psychoanalysis, "A Dangerous Method" takes its time as it circles an opening to unexplored depths.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2012

A Dangerous Method is a suave chamber piece: a series of glimpses of two 20th-century intellectual titans, in friendship and separation, and the story of a remarkable woman who history had swallowed up, brought into the light again.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 13, 2012

Cronenberg has reached the stage of his career where he doesn't feel it necessary to pander to expectations. Instead he seeks to engage us, and he succeeds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 12, 2012

A Dangerous Method is well cast with Michael Fassbender as a pent-up Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Freud. Keira Knightley​ inhabits the fits and fury of Spielrein.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 6, 2012

This is a freaky thing to behold: Knightley's wildly physical rendering of a mentally unbalanced soul.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2012

It's a movie of ideas, but there aren't nearly enough of them.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 5, 2012

A Dangerous Method barely nudges the freak-o-meter.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 5, 2012

It's a period piece about the origins of psychoanalysis and the sexual confusions of its progenitors that is eloquent and handsomely made, if never quite revelatory.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 23, 2011