It's never quite as funny or stylistically insightful as it thinks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2016

Formally dazzling, emotionally empty.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2016

Peter Greenaway's latest, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, may not be up everyone's street, and even fans may find the self-indulgent longueurs towards the end of the film too much. Still, the premise is interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2016

Greenaway's devotion and cinephilia shine through. A fascinatingly vehement and intense movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2016

As the bushy haired Russian filmmaker, Elmer Bck looks and behaves like Harpo Marx. It's an intriguing performance which captures its subject's humour, prurience and his visionary qualities.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2016

A messy, hectic, fitfully amusing film-nerd farce.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 11, 2016

To be sure, Greenaway's sensibilities may not be for everyone, but in the years to come, this is an artist whose work will be studied. It's a pleasure seeing him come out to play.

| Mar 23, 2016

Greenaway's madcap style involves quick cuts, scenes changing from black and white to color, split-screen effects and eye-popping visuals that tend to overwhelm. The effect is initially giddy but it ultimately wears the viewer down.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2016

Fans of Greenaway's work - a mix of the brainy, the controversial and the grotesque - won't necessarily be surprised by any of this. They may, however, be disappointed at how little of it actually works.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 3, 2016

This interpretation may not be strictly factual, but it's a persuasive narrative and it brings out the strongest instincts in Greenaway, whose most popular movie remains "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2016

The film's hyperactivity ultimately wears you down. Is it possible to give a movie Ritalin? "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" makes you want to try.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2016

Greenaway gets lost in his own panache, allowing the narrative to unravel.

| Feb 18, 2016

This unusually feeling-driven Greenaway movie still isn't for everybody, but that feels right, too. He's been able to make his art the way he's wanted to for decades - like EIG, that's a fitting tribute to a troubled, glorious iconoclast.

| Feb 8, 2016

Greenaway ... hasn't made a really good film in a quarter-century, so the disappointments of "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" come as no surprise.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 5, 2016

The movie gleefully demolishes the clich of a great artist as a brooding, omniscient eminence.

| Feb 5, 2016

Greenaway's boundary-pushing, breathlessly in-your-face approach begins to take its toll on viewer patience, resulting in Eisenstein not being the only one to ultimately lose interest in his bold Mexican odyssey.

| Feb 4, 2016

Eisenstein in Guanajuato is far from a subtle picture, and hardly what you'd call to everyone's taste, but it certainly doesn't lack for enthusiasm, vision or style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2016

What Greenaway does, however, at times quite magnificently-together with regular collaborators, DP Reinier van Brummelen and editor Elmer Leupen-is to expand on the visual and rhythmic vocabulary of what we think of as the "Greenaway film."

| Feb 4, 2016

Greenaway's obsessions with sex, food, and vengeance sometimes cover up the fact that he has no idea how to explain why people want anything, but not here.

| Original Score: C | Feb 4, 2016

What comes through clearly by the end of the film is the act of one artist's eccentric generosity breathing new awareness into the life of another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2016