De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Grasshopper Film | Release Date: April 14, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
92
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Irish TimesTara BradyJun 16, 2023
The epic results simultaneously function as endoscopic body horror, as a portrait of overworked and underfunded medical staff and as a business study of death. Read full review
100
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsMay 25, 2023
One thing that lifts this above the type of hospital-based docu-drama that are ten-a-penny on the small screen is that Paravel and Castaing-Taylor locate a uniquely cinematic quality to the footage. Read full review
100
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangApr 27, 2023
Part Frederick Wiseman-esque medical study, part endoscopic-horror tour de force, it is a thing to be experienced, ideally in a theater — a movie theater, not an operating one, though the filmmakers have a particular genius for blurring the difference. Read full review
91
IndieWireLeila LatifMar 31, 2023
As much as the new technology that prolongs our lives, and makes a film like De Humani Corporis Fabrica possible exists, there is a devastating truth about the vulnerability of the flesh that lingers. Read full review
91
The PlaylistCarlos AguilarMar 31, 2023
With its uncompromising and full-frontal depiction of the elements that give us life, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” tests our levels of comfort in accepting we are essentially all decaying entities made of organic material. It also makes us reconsider our relationship with medicine. Read full review
90
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldApr 13, 2023
The film’s sometimes brusque transitions and decentered perspectives are just as transgressive as any of the graphic imagery. Read full review
90
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyApr 5, 2023
Some cinema hits you in the gut – this film places you right inside the gut, and while it’s not always a pleasant place to be, it’s a visit you’re not likely to forget. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerApr 3, 2023
For viewers who resist the temptation to flee for the nearest exit, this fascinating and probing look at modern surgery is a memorable experience, making us ponder our own humanity as we watch humans reduced to pure flesh-and-blood organisms. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 14, 2023
These caretakers are all too human. The movie somehow turns that into a reason to admire them all the more. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSep 9, 2022
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s film is one of the supreme cinematic examinations of the body’s magnificent malleability. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 15, 2023
Much of the film immerses us in an unknowable, unrecognisable world under the skin, without shape, without what Vesalius wanted to show us in the 16th century. It is an uncanny spectacle. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 11, 2023
The surgeries shown here, organs in their place in the crowded human body, functioning or failing, is indeed eye-opening. But the film’s structure is, as an ancient Roman critic would have put it, inportunum et inordinatum. Read full review
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