The Draughtsman’s Contract has a singular brilliance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 10, 2022

Agatha Christy this ain't, but it is weirdly wonderful.

| Feb 7, 2019

A well-constructed plot that's both playful and thematically significant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2019

Contract is sordid and gorgeous at the same time; its elaborate costumes and coifs and its beautiful landscapes stand in marked contrast to the characters' blunt brutality.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 7, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Though seemingly a comedy of manners taking place in the country home of a rich man, Herbert, there is an underlying viciousness of these rich denizens that foreshadows coming upheavals.

| Oct 18, 2008

A puzzle book for intellectual aesthetes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 22, 2008

Artificial in the extreme, it may nevertheless be Greenaway's most naturalistic and easygoing film.

| Jul 5, 2007

What we have here is a tantalizing puzzle, wrapped in eroticism and presented with the utmost elegance. I have never seen a film quite like it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

''The Draughtsman's Contract'' is fun not because it is an imitation of anything, but because its sensibility is that of a 20th-century social satirist.

| Aug 30, 2004

Full of the bawdy licentiousness and scabrous wit of the Jacobean era, Greenaway's debut is one of the most captivating films of his far-from-dull career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2003