One of the best of the 82-year-old Cronenberg’s very productive late-career period, although I was much more interested in the grief aspect of the film than the conspiracy thriller parts.

| Apr 25, 2025

With a larger canvas, stretched over 10 hours, there’s every chance Cronenberg could have explored this dark and profound territory in more depth. But with only two skittish hours at his disposal, the director barely cracks the topsoil.

| Apr 25, 2025

... consistently unsettling even as it becomes muddled in the final act.

| Apr 25, 2025

The pace feels deliberate throughout, almost at times ceremonial. Karsh describes himself as “a non-observant atheist.” The Shrouds is a bit like that, too.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2025

Cassel and Kruger give haunting, strangely electrifying performances in this flawed but affecting work. "The Shrouds" casts an odd spell: Its details fade away, while its essence lingers.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 25, 2025

Unfortunately, many plot threads are left dangling, but they are a minor annoyance offset by the riveting psychosexual dance between the principal cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2025

One of the master's most provocative and personal works. In the role of his creator's doppelganger, Cassel excels. Kruger is a protean wonder. Bitter, funny and sexy,

| Original Score: A- | Apr 25, 2025

A common symptom of David Cronenberg’s mournful masterpiece metastasizing in the mind is lingering contemplation.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 25, 2025

At its best, [The Shrouds] throbs with raw, human, horrific honesty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2025

It’s an absolutely original vision. It’s a wail of grief, an expression of love, a testament to the body. Cronenberg puts it all on the line here, and he gets his actors to put it all on the line with him.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2025

The disorientation of grief is on full display here. It doesn’t all add up; it doesn’t even all make sense. Which befits a story involving a man lost in loss, desperate to regain what he cannot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2025

Cronenberg’s take on death and decay proves to be potent and fascinating.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 25, 2025

Cronenberg is a master at thematic horror/thrillers, & this one has a few more layers of thought and symbolism. Cassel, with his angular looks, felt like a lead in a 1930s horror epic, but it is Diane Kruger who fearlessly brings Cronenberg's themes home.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 25, 2025

Cronenberg speaks through every frame: a filmmaker baring his soul in the only language he knows - one of flesh, decay, and the futile, beautiful need to connect before we disappear.

| Apr 24, 2025

Ultimately, “The Shrouds,” like the Bard, sees death as a fate “devoutly to be wished.”

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2025

The Shrouds lets the grief, the real lived experience of witnessing death, inform its most honest moments.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 24, 2025

Is there anyone in the planet more suited to explore death and grief, two decidedly analog experiences, in a digital world?

| Apr 24, 2025

A film that will not only go down as one of the very best films of this year but deserves to ranked as one of the boldest, bravest and best works of Cronenberg’s entire career.

| Apr 24, 2025

Motivated by the thorny act of grieving, The Shrouds is David Cronenberg’s most personal film and is as complicated, and occasionally uncomfortable, as the act of grief itself.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 24, 2025

This probably shouldn't be anyone's first Cronenberg movie, but for viewers who have followed him across sicko classics like Shivers, The Brood and The Fly, it's a powerful jolt of the uncanny, horrific beauty that only he can create.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2025