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

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

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

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

Savage Grace is a movie that badly wants to shock you. The only thing that might raise an eyebrow here, however, is the shocking rate at which everyone lights up a cigarette every five minutes.

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

A film as harsh, brittle and unbalanced as its characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 11, 2008

Though the characters may be repellent, the film permits you to feel sympathy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 4, 2008

It's a horror story, all right, but the reason for telling it remains unclear, and it seems like a waste of Kalin's evident talent.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 27, 2008

For that particular someone, Savage Grace could be the perfect summer chiller.ca

| Jun 27, 2008

Though the film looks elegant, with deceptively simple interiors creating an impression of great wealth, it feels remote. We're impressed by the work the actors are doing, yet the characters don't hold our interest.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 20, 2008

Savage Grace contemplates passion without sampling it, though, and the film quickly becomes as remote as a magazine spread.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 13, 2008

Julianne Moore proves game for anything in this pitch-black true-crime reconstruction, where she stars as mercurial socialite Barbara Baekeland, wife of the taciturn heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune (virtuoso Stephen Dillane).

| Jun 13, 2008

While the Baekelands would be flattered to rank with Clytemnestra and Oedipus, they and the film are as shallow as martinis

| Original Score: D- | Jun 13, 2008

Living these lives, for these people, must have been sad and tedious, and so, inevitably, is their story, and it must be said, the film about it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 13, 2008

Savage Grace is content to glide along, and while its key performances are intelligent, none of the writing activates these real-life characters fully.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 12, 2008

The movie just sloshes along in a heavy, slightly overdone way.

| Jun 12, 2008

I think the director has some talent, but it's kind of a nothing tale.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2008

Savage Grace has been shot with decadent cool creaminess, yet it's a rather slipshod movie.

| Original Score: B- | May 30, 2008

Given its subject matter, it's oddly vacuous -- it rarely takes hold emotionally even when its people hit bottom with a resounding thud.

| Original Score: C | May 30, 2008