Seven Veils
Variance Films | Release Date: March 7, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The PlaylistWarren CantrellMar 7, 2025
A marriage of dramaturgy and remembrance, Seven Veils dances through its themes and character history with thoughtful intention that would impress Salome herself. Emotionally bracing and infused with a meta-text that leapfrogs the story and the characters themselves, it is almost good enough to lose one’s head over. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesMar 8, 2025
With “Seven Veils” Mr. Egoyan has done something more interesting, weaving a new narrative into and around the opera until the two become a dense, dark thicket of their own. Read full review
80
ColliderIsabella SoaresMar 7, 2025
Seven Veils is an intense psychodrama, enriched by Seyfried's magnetism and the director's ability to piece together the content of Strauss' opera with the protagonist's repressed memories. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenFeb 27, 2025
Essentially serving as a constant spectator, looking in on both the production and her own tangled life, Seyfriend impressively conveys a myriad of tamped-down, long-repressed emotions with an economy of dialogue at her disposal. Read full review
75
ObserverEmily ZemlerMar 4, 2025
There are questions and uncertainties that linger once the movie ends. But like difficult, repressed memories, there is no easy resolution to be found. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorFeb 27, 2025
The most remarkable element is surely the way Egoyan has seamlessly integrated footage from previous COC productions, that he shot himself at the time, into his new film to give it the breadth of a genuine stage performance. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 27, 2025
This intense psychodrama about buried trauma and doomed romance demonstrates an unapologetic operatic flair which entrances and over-reaches in equal measure. Seyfried exudes a stark intensity that grounds the proceedings — whenever Egoyan risks losing control, she keeps the production on course. Read full review
69
Paste MagazineJim VorelMar 5, 2025
Lovers of classical opera will no doubt find it to be a sumptuous treat. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comJourdain SearlesMar 10, 2025
Egoyan has always delved right into fraught familial ties without shying away from ugliness, and “Seven Veils” is perhaps his most overt exploration of familial trauma. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 8, 2025
It’s a lot. Seyfried, who has worked with writer-director Egoyan before on the super-ripe erotic drama “Chloe” (2009), finesses some zig-zaggy tonal swerves confidently and well. The writing, however, wobbles. Read full review
63
Washington PostTy BurrMar 7, 2025
Seven Veils doesn’t crash to Earth, but it also never quite frees itself from the notebook of its ideas to become the gripping emotional thriller it seems to want to be. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineEli FriedbergMar 4, 2025
The film’s pleasures are ultimately more textural and academic than those of Tár. Read full review
58
IndieWireNatalia WinkelmanFeb 27, 2025
Acting as the film’s teetering anchor, Seyfried channels a fascinating blend of composure and chaos that, in a less muddled movie, would have sung. Yet here, her portrayal of an assured woman unraveling under pressure merely lends a haunting note to a tale that strikes as simultaneously laborious and opaque. Read full review
58
The Film StageEthan VestbyFeb 27, 2025
If I have virtually nothing positive to say about Seven Veils other than Seyfried’s compelling presence, I can’t quite bring myself to hate it. Frankly, I was never bored, and to some extent––even when dealing with such tricky subject matter––the fact that Egoyan was willing to be the dozenth piece of content I’ve seen in the past year to make a swipe at intimacy coordinators articulates the level of seriousness he’s dealing with here. Read full review
50
Screen RantRachel LaBonteMar 12, 2025
Seven Veils still falls prey to its own expansive focus, making it a compelling yet unsatisfying drama. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubBrianna ZiglerMar 8, 2025
Egoyan’s film is at once stylish and slipshod, a film that is both gorgeously shot—haunting shadows, deep colors—and inelegant in its themes of sexual trauma and assault. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMar 6, 2025
In short, Seven Veils offers plenty to think about. But fans who mourn that Egoyan’s dramatic instincts have slipped in recent years won’t quite be getting a return to form. Read full review
50
SlashfilmBarry LevittFeb 27, 2025
Seven Veils feels like Egoyan struggling under his own expectations, just like Jeanine begins to crumble under hers. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 22, 2024
It’s an egghead exercise, both scrambled and undercooked. Read full review
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