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

It's kind of a mess narratively and psychologically.

| Jul 22, 2020

It feels scattershot and overwrought, unfortunately.

| Jul 22, 2020

The director's sturdiest creation in a while.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2020

Guest Of Honour, [Egoyan's] latest effort, is decidedly that sort of low-wattage Egoyan classic, serving up familiar preoccupations and structural curlicues-minus any inspiration.

| Original Score: C | Jul 10, 2020

The movie is consistently seductive, and it makes lovely use of a composition by Shannon Graham that is woven into Veronica's work as a music teacher. But... the characters' anguish feels more constructed than organic.

| Jul 9, 2020

Guest of Honour is grippingly obtuse, at first, like early David Lynch. But eventually, sadly, Egoyan nullifies all narrative possibilities with a silly and cumbersome plotline about an accidental house-fire and a childhood grudge.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2020

A partial comeback for Egoyan, bit still some way to go.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2020

A bafflingly strained and unconvincing melodrama with some awful acting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2020

Thewlis is fun to watch at work. Less so the film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2020

Guest of Honour is sort of a ridiculous movie, and yet the things holding it together-above all its maker's faith in the principles and possibilities of narrative as a restless, ever-shifting experiment in architecture-are worth taking seriously.

| Sep 8, 2019

There is a definite yuck factor to Atom Egoyan's Guest of Honour.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 7, 2019

I'm not convinced it amounts to any more than the sum of its parts, but the parts are intriguing - and some are possessed of real power.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2019

[A] hopelessly muddled, murky blend of family melodrama and investigative thriller...

| Sep 4, 2019

[An] over-plotted soap... continues the mystifying career drift of the once-interesting Canadian auteur, Atom Egoyan.

| Sep 3, 2019

Even at its most perversely entertaining - this very unpredictable movie only feels as if it's working in spite of itself.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 3, 2019