A much more intense and disturbing film from a director that starts to find substance tailored to his beautiful swathings. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2023

Tom at the Farm immerses us into a daring story that broaches complex themes such as Stockholm syndrome and repressed homosexuality. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 27, 2023

Trapped in a tango of lust, grief, and power, Tom at the Farm is the Canadian filmmaker’s tightest and most controlled film.

| Oct 27, 2022

I don't doubt that on the stage this story could be very tense and thrilling, but something is lost in translation when put on the screen. It might just not be the right material for Xavier Dolan...

| Jan 14, 2021

A spellbinding, artfully disciplined psychodrama worthy of a top-tier Hitchcock.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2019

Tom and the Farm's characters make decisions based less in rationality and more in getting where the writer wants them to be. It's difficult to go along with the story when the gears in its machine are so easily exposed.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 3, 2019

Tom at the Farm certainly has some flaws that are too big to ignore but in terms of genre filmmaking and acting, it's a decent watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2018

Violence and sexuality have been explored on screen numerous times, yet Dolan brings a new, semi-successful twist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018

The distance between Dolan and the source material works in the movie's favor, and the shrill histrionics that tend to hamper his more personal work are here tempered by formal rigor.

| Aug 22, 2018

It's all a bit improbable, but Dolan -- who claimed never to have watched any Hitchcock before filming -- pulls off a Master-of-Suspense Psycho-drama, down to the scraping, disturbed violins.

| Jan 1, 2018

Blends psychological-thriller elements with unexpected humor for a thoroughly unsettling plunge into a nightmare of fear and intolerance.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 21, 2016

Grief, lies and webs of deceit are the flesh-eating monsters. The film exudes a living poetry.... Dolan has the ability to render any banal activity ominous.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 28, 2016

While it sometimes struggles to shake its stagebound roots, there are moments of visual and dramatic beauty along the way.

| Sep 2, 2015

With Tom at the Farm, Dolan is able to weave in ideas of familial and romantic replacement and their ultimately destructive consequences.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 19, 2015

It's a tentative slow burn about the secrets we keep in the name of love, and it doesn't quite add up.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 18, 2015

Elbow deep in the inner turmoil of its characters, with a good old-fashioned monster in Francis along with a good old-fashioned horror movie setting , the film passes quickly... but every shot counts, and every moment matters.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 17, 2015

Tom at the Farm's unwillingness to give us all the answers sets it apart from wannabe psychodramas.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 17, 2015

Shadows seep into nearly every frame of the film, but true darkness never coheres.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Aug 15, 2015

Fans of Dolan's work will no doubt appreciate that his core themes continue to resonate throughout, even if others may find the whole thing too strange to fully grasp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2015

There's something urgent going on with this French-Canadian director, and youth has a great deal to do with it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2015