The film doesn't resonate with much or any of this, to its cost. It is too dry, too isolating, too passive. All in all, the makers of Savage Grace settled for far too little.

| Feb 13, 2021

One of those classic morbid but elegant Vanity Fair articles. [Full review in Spanish]

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

Visually stunning and performance driven, Savage Grace has a carnal savagery that will ravage sensibilities and senses.

| Nov 15, 2019

A poorly constructed, flaccid drama that treats complex emotional and psychological issues with all the depth of a particularly dull rock.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

A spellbinding tale of luxury, incest, madness and matricide...

| Sep 26, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Ridiculous. An artsy-soapy drawing room study of bored contempt and idle peccadilloes amongst the 1950s-'60s-'70s jet set in Europe.

| May 6, 2010

Superficial dysfunctional story on the rich.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 25, 2009

The most shocking thing about Savage Grace is its flatness

| Aug 26, 2009

A sick-room torpor hangs heavily about this masterfully controlled, elegantly composed movie by Tom Kalin.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: C- | Oct 18, 2008

Provocative but frustratingly shallow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

The subject matter could be considered shocking and the film is difficult to watch at times; the director, Tom Kalin, isn't pulling his punches, but he refrains from giving any of the material the showy Hollywood treatment.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

While the pace occasionally flags and there are times when we wonder where Kalin is leading us, he maintains a pervasive sense of dread and unease throughout that makes the chilling climax seem both shocking and inevitable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

This tale of class differences, social climbing, illicit affairs, incest and murder creates an emotional wall between the characters and the audience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2008

For all the Baekalands' outré behavior, the movie is peculiarly timid at times.

| Sep 10, 2008

A grotesque waste of time about terrible people I'd rather not have known.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 31, 2008