For all the initial mysteriousness of virtually everyone’s actions, Atom Egoyan is never coy for the sake of being coy.

| Sep 22, 2022

A central part of the movie's dreamlike ambience derives from the fact that the camera is in motion in practically every shot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2022

Atom Egoyan makes his most conventionally-satisfying film in Exotica. I don't mean that as a putdown: it's his best movie, too, though some of his early academic-theory fans may be put off at its accessibility.

| Apr 10, 2018

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Egoyan's masterpiece -- a twisting tale of erotic obsession and hypnotic storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 22, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 7, 2005

Exotica is a movie labyrinth, winding seductively into the darkest secrets of a group of people who should have no connection with one another, but do.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B+ | May 16, 1994