An amusing satire about how politics is more concerned with form than with being useful to the people. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2025

Common thoughts will likely be ‘what am I watching?’, ‘whose idea was this?’, and ‘are those zombies furiously masturbating?’

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 12, 2025

In the words of Lindsey Buckingham, Rumours is a film which, sometimes to its detriment, goes its own way - and yet it's so strangely, comically unique, one can certainly appreciate an awkwardness...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2025

I found it a functional means of laughing at the current state of democratic nations, because any other analysis of the topic is just depressing.

| Mar 4, 2025

It is in many ways Guy Maddin's most mainstream film.

| Jan 11, 2025

Rumours can be confounding and the first half moves a bit slowly, but it’s also quite mesmerizing and the final hour is chock full of enough doomsday madness to keep the audience intrigued and engaged (as well as confused).

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 19, 2024

Rumours, however, is a head-scratching misstep, a political satire come comedy-horror that goes on for too long and thinks it has more to say than it actually does.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 18, 2024

... The relentless silliness packs a slyly satirical punch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2024

Rumours is worth watching just to see Blanchett, who plays Hilda Orlmann, do what is clearly an impression of former German chancellor Angela Merkel. Equally entertaining is Roy Dupuis...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2024

Rumours makes a lot of noise, some of it not entirely unpleasant. But Maddin and Co overplay their hand, and this staggeringly odd film tested my patience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 17, 2024

I think we’re meant to find it funny. I just found it tiresome.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 13, 2024

‘…Rumours is a comic parable about an ‘energy crisis’ where there’s too much talk and not enough action…if the barbs don't always strike home, it’s probably because the political landscape right now in Dec 2024 has passed beyond the point of satire…’

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2024

While it's packed with nutty characters and sharply pointed moments, the film remains out of reach as it meanders through its wacky plot.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 11, 2024

If some viewers can still cling onto The West Wing as a comfort watch... there’s something to be said for the appeal of a text offering the total flip side in its portrayal of centrism’s capabilities, especially one as full of punkish spirit as this.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2024

If you like your satire incisive you should perhaps look elsewhere, but the state of the world looks even more laughably absurd through Maddin and the Johnsons’ wickedly warped lens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

To enjoy Rumours you will have to accept that despite its opening, its aim is not The Thick Of It-style political skewering, but rather bonkers, absurdist nihilism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

It all becomes a little repetitive, if not outright tiresome, at a certain point, once the filmmakers’ pursuit of the strange starts to outpace the flimsiness of their satire. Still, as you might expect from Maddin, there’s nothing else quite like it.

| Dec 10, 2024

With the age of globalism seemingly creaking to a close, there is something wildly mordant about Rumours — a portrait of the last technocrats, still talking bilateral supply chain management as the skies crack open.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2024

It’s about the weaknesses of liberal democracies, which is a timely subject. Yet the punches do not land.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2024

Unfortunately, it all wears a little thin. And while there are some excellent jokes and startling visuals, there isn’t enough going on in the movie to sustain its running time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2024