Although the story does not have a completely successful rhythm... there is no choice but to surrender to the character of Jeanine, brilliantly played by Seyfried. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 11, 2025

Egoyan has always delved right into fraught familial ties without shying away from ugliness, and "Seven Veils" is perhaps his most overt exploration of familial trauma.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2025

Instead of sharpening its blades on the operatic chaos radiating from its main character, the film loses its edge, veering into an overwrought territory that ultimately diminishes its finale.

| Mar 8, 2025

Less might have been more — but less wouldn’t have been Atom Egoyan.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 7, 2025

Yet in spite of the script’s disinterest in nuance, where it ends up is annoyingly vague and thematically imprecise.

| Original Score: C | Mar 7, 2025

[Seyfried] finesses some zig-zaggy tonal swerves confidently and well.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 7, 2025

Resituating classic operas in updated contexts is, by now, old hat... But with “Seven Veils” Mr. Egoyan has done something more interesting, weaving a new narrative into and around the opera until the two become a dense, dark thicket of their own.

| Mar 7, 2025

Fans who mourn that Egoyan’s dramatic instincts have slipped in recent years won’t quite be getting a return to form.

| Mar 6, 2025

Amanda Seyfried gives a dynamic, complex performance as an opera director grappling with trauma in her past and present.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2025

For better and worse, Seven Veils abounds in myriad thematic swings tied loosely to one another through echoes and rhymes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 2, 2025

It’s an egghead exercise, both scrambled and undercooked.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2024

[Atom Egoyan] could have simply filmed his latest Canadian Opera Company remounting of “Salome,” a visceral Bible extrapolation... Instead he chose to make fresh drama out of it, syncing his screen and stage passions to mesmerizing effect.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 18, 2023

“Seven Veils” feels like a true return to form for Egoyan, almost as if “Salome” has inspired Egoyan’s entire filmography.

| Sep 17, 2023

Acting as the film’s teetering anchor, Seyfried channels a fascinating blend of composure and chaos that, in a less muddled movie, would have sung.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 14, 2023

Seven Veils is far from the first film to explore how art imitates life, but Atom Egoyan’s take on a familiar theme is so feverish that one can’t help being swept up in its mad vision.

| Sep 11, 2023

A fascinating film about appropriation – not cultural but personal, the morally dubious territory in which the artist takes your trauma and spins it into gold.

| Sep 11, 2023

Essentially serving as a constant spectator, looking in on both the production and her own tangled life, Seyfriend impressively conveys a myriad of tamped-down, long-repressed emotions with an economy of dialogue at her disposal.

| Sep 9, 2023