Finds Willem Dafoe pulling off an acting tour de force as the deteriorating, emotionally and mentally unstable artist.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 9, 2021

It takes an impressive stance on the visuals.

| Apr 3, 2019

Haggardly embodied by Dafoe, Vincent is an ingenuous, socially alienated figure aghast at the suffering he must endure.

| Apr 2, 2019

At Eternity's Gate is about a man who enjoys being engulfed by emotion. The movie that frames his rapture, though full of beautiful moments, is near wild heaven, but not near enough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2019

For all the feverish visual invention, there's a sluggishness to the storytelling that seems at odds with the frenzied creativity of the film's subject.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2019

Schnabel, himself a painter, is going for an internal portrait, and At Eternity's Gate comes as close to that as we could have hoped.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2019

Reflecting the fundamental upset in Van Gogh, it articulates better than any "traditional" biopic before the sense of an artist struggling with the limits of the visual, and reaching farther, for something beyond.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2019

Abstract, meandering and somewhat inaccessible, At Eternity's Gate is as frustrating as it is profound.

| Mar 28, 2019

Vibrant and intoxicating, At Eternity's Gate is a terrific study of both an artist at work and the fragile nature of genius. And Willem Dafoe gives one of the performances of his career, inhabiting and illuminating a complex, crumbling soul.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2019

Everyone's fighting a script, credited in part to Buñuel's great collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, that is chronologically antsy to an alienating degree.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 28, 2019

Schnabel and Dafoe make their Vincent at once rational and impassioned: debating art theories with Oscar Isaac's Gauguin even while played by nature, life and the elements as if by an aeolian harp.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2019

Willem Dafoe's Best Actor Oscar-nominated turn as Vincent van Gogh is not, it turns out, the only reason to catch this adulatory, wildly expressionistic biopic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2019

Clumsy and tiresome, playing into outdated ideas about mental health.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2019

What emerges in At Eternity's Gate is one of the more empathetic takes on Van Gogh, the man...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2019

Dafoe's ability to switch on a dime between expressions of joy and pain, spiritual transcendence and physical suffering, are put to great use here, creating a character both venerable and pitiable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2018

Dafoe fully commits to his performance, as does Schnabel to the painter's vision and humanity.

| Nov 26, 2018

At Eternity's Gate mainly succeeds, dusting off a century's worth of global celebrity to both animate a suffering soul and rescue a radical artistic mission from the museum gift shop.

| Nov 25, 2018

It's a story both ecstatic and tragic, and Schnabel is more interested in the former than the latter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2018

At Eternity's Gate favors beauty in the extreme.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2018

Dafoe adds another masterful performance to his resume; his work here is as deep and as piercing as his performance in "The Last Temptation of Christ" more than 30 years ago.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 21, 2018