It comes within an inch of a really snappy disquisition (to use Morf's word) on the painting marketplace, but to avoid disappointment it's better approached as a gory romp.

| Feb 14, 2019

This is a movie for people who get the joke.

| Feb 8, 2019

It doesn't really add up to much, it's darkly enjoyable as long as you're into all that.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 7, 2019

The setting Gilroy creates here is so much more engaging than what he does with it.

| Feb 4, 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw is at its best when reveling in its trashiest excesses: shade, sex, and slaughter.

| Feb 4, 2019

[It] is a silly yet genuinely entertaining mix of high- and low-brow amusement. And believe it or not, it mostly works.

| Feb 4, 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw has the kind of bite that leaves a mark.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 2, 2019

If Velvet Buzzsaw had stayed in its lane as a giggly snapshot of art-world power plays-with Morf's mix of aesthetic authority and interpersonal shadiness as its focal point-it might have been a minor, enjoyable farce.

| Feb 2, 2019

A film that's every bit as shiny and hollow as those colorful balloon animals that Jeff Koons has sold for millions of dollars.

| Original Score: C | Feb 1, 2019

"Velvet Buzzsaw" has fun sending up the pretentiousness of the art world and its collective clamoring to discover the Next Big Thing, but it loses its bite as it morphs into a directionless horror romp.

| Original Score: C | Feb 1, 2019

Its ideas are silly, but Jake Gyllenhaal delivers them with such goofy passion that who cares?

| Feb 1, 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw is a captivating, silly, delicious, decadent mess. It's the cronut of movies, a pointless treat I never thought I'd need, or want, until it was put right in front of me.

| Feb 1, 2019

The message -that the art world is venal and two-faced, populated by the over-sexed, and grotesquely insecure - lands like a sledgehammer through a windscreen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2019

Art-world satire meets schlocky horror in this enjoyably silly Los Angeles-set ensemble piece.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw is never less than a feast for the eyes even when it reduces the plot to B-level butchery. What's missing is the potent provocation that Gilroy seemed to be developing at the start.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw is a pretty soulless piece of art about the soullessness of art; but that doesn't mean it can't have a little fun proving its point.

| Feb 1, 2019

It's a movie that revels in being standoffish while simultaneously using that as an excuse to all those who don't like it.

| Feb 1, 2019

The art world is fair game for satire; frankly, this is a world ripe for mean comedy. But Velvet Buzzsaw never lands the joke-instead, it falls prey to becoming one.

| Jan 31, 2019

It's a modest twist on an old horror formula, where -- like snotty teenagers -- the viewer isn't supposed to feel especially guilty about watching the characters potentially become victims.

| Jan 31, 2019

With its silvery sheen and sexy lure of celebrity actors being naughty, the film recalls the decadent, self-consciously chic art it parodies

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2019