Perhaps it's fitting that a film about a restaurant inspector should elicit so many sniffs of suspicion. But there's a playful spice and pungency here too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2020

Guest of Honour might not be the best thing Egoyan has made. But with David Thewlis's affecting and measured performance, it comes close to his heyday of filmmaking in the 90s.

| Oct 23, 2020

Taking place in various time periods, its tricky structure more garbled than intriguing, this is another recent Egoyan joint that's basically a trashy potboiler treated with a seriousness that only makes it all both leaden and silly.

| Oct 12, 2020

While it may not ultimately amount to much on a thematic level, Egoyan's latest is a fascinating experiment from a director who has seemingly found the spark once again.

| Sep 10, 2020

Egoyan offers a clumsy intellectual exercise. These characters stand out like metaphors in New Yorker magazine short-story fiction. Each one is a stick figure in a narrative maze.

| Sep 4, 2020

Verónica recounts the torments, and secrets that marked her relationship with her father, which would not be resolved until the end of the movie [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2020

It may not be a feel-good movie, but it's not a despairing one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 20, 2020

Ultimately, the movie could have benefited from a better screenplay and tighter editing. The father and daughter at the center of this story are written as a series of unfortunate events instead of people with emotionally rich and full lives.

| Jul 30, 2020

it's hard to resist the film's daft charms, neatly summed up in Veronica's terse final report on her father--which Egoyan clearly hopes we'll read as a self-evaluation: "He made a lot of odd choices."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2020

Guest of Honour may not be Egoyan at his best, but it is most certainly some of the best of Egoyan.

| Jul 29, 2020

an engaging, multilayered drama built around a fascinating central character that nevertheless falls short of what is, admittedly, the unfair expectation that it be a true return to form for Atom Egoyan

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2020

As he so often is, Thewlis straddles the line between creepy and pathetic, and that's a good thing-perhaps the only really good thing in Guest of Honour.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2020

It's kind of a mess narratively and psychologically.

| Jul 22, 2020

It feels scattershot and overwrought, unfortunately.

| Jul 22, 2020

I think this may be [director Atom Egoyan's] best film since The Sweet Hereafter. I doesn't compare to The Sweet Hereafter, but... I thought it was very engaging and psychologically interesting.

| Jul 22, 2020

Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan again adeptly explores the nature of perception, memory and storytelling in this darkly intriguing drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2020

Many such movies are great. This one is just pretty good ... Due to a game cast, though, it's a worthwhile yarn.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 19, 2020

Convoluted drama has mature themes, drinking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2020

A welcome return to form for Egoyan, thanks to confident direction, twisty storytelling, and a commanding lead performance by Thewlis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2020

Bizarre...and oddly compelling...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2020