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Velvet Buzzsaw

2019

Dan Gilroy

Jake Gyllenhaal, René Russo, Zawe Ashton, Toni Collette ...

4.8

5,313

Thriller. Mystery In the cutthroat world of fine-art trading and representation, up-and-coming agent Josephina (Zawe Ashton) stumbles across a secret weapon: hundreds of dazzling paintings left behind after an elderly tenant in her building dies. Ignoring the instructions the clandestine artist left to destroy his work, she promptly starts circulating the paintings, which soon attract the attention of the heavy hitters around her—including her boss ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The confident storytelling and the bravura acting - Daveed Diggs, Toni Collette and John Malkovich contribute compelling caricatures - carry 'Buzzsaw' all the way home."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] is never less than a feast for the eyes even when it reduces the plot to B-level butchery (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"It's hardly great art, but Dan Gilroy's (...) horror satire packs an undeniably trashy appeal as it skewers the snobbish world of galleries."
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"There’s enough fun, writerly glee and actors enjoying their little rampages (...) is a decent distraction for a couple of hours, but also something of a schizophrenic case all its own."
		Matt Goldberg Collider	"A slasher movie with something to say (...) If you simply let the film unfold and accept it as a wild ride with some valuable insights, then Velvet Buzzsaw is a blast from start to finish.
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"It’s a wildly inconsistent film, sometimes disappointingly clunky and as superficial as the world it’s mocking, but it’s also an ambitious piece of work with unforgettable imagery and an ace ensemble (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Meredith Borders Bloody Disgusting	"Gilroy has a talent at telling surreal and occasionally even hallucinatory stories (...) It won’t take long for you to buy into Velvet Buzzsaw’s nuttiness (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Dan Gilroy's art world satire is as shiny and hollow as one of Jeff Koons' priceless balloon dogs (...) [It] needed to be 60% better or 20% worse in order to transcend the forgettable silliness of its existence"
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"It’s like Bret Easton Ellis meeting John Carpenter in the bathroom at Art Basel (...) For a lot of its runtime, 'Velvet' (...) is fun and silly and enjoyably outrageous."
		Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"Apologies in advance, but for lack of a better descriptor the whole thing is a mess. It’s not even good enough to be a cult movie which is backhanded compliment anyway. But, hey, at least the actors tried."
		Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"A smart, enjoyable and original movie."
		Emily Yoshida Vulture	"Gilroy and Gyllenhaal have some kind of gonzo chemistry. Even if 'Velvet Buzzsaw' starts to sputter slightly after it’s made its point, it’s plenty exciting to witness the incredibly specific madness they whip up together."
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It’s a mess, but a mostly enjoyable one, wildly careering between farce and frights, never risking boredom along the way (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Lowry CNN	"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."

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