The Shrouds
Janus Films | Release Date: April 18, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithApr 17, 2025
What started out as something that promised to be akin to a droll, twisted Coen Brothers comedy instead wanders off into reverie. And when the movie ends, critical questions are simply left unresolved. Mr. Cronenberg may not care about closure, but a movie can benefit greatly from it. Read full review
60
Time OutDave CalhounMay 21, 2024
As a storyteller Cronenberg usually tells stories with more verve and storytelling power than this. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 20, 2024
It’s a movie presented with absolute conviction and gimlet-eyed seriousness, but less wayward humour than Cronenberg often gives us. Read full review
58
The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossMay 21, 2024
What is grief if not a non-linear, mood-spanning, incongruous mess? In this, The Shrouds feels like one of the greatest encapsulations of loss and one we might look at more and more fondly as time goes by. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinMay 20, 2024
This fetid stew of sex, death and tech may be an aphrodisiac for hardcore Cronenberg fans, but more casual viewers are likely to find it all rather slapdash and undercooked here. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 20, 2024
Cronenberg is transmitting to us from the borders of death, behind the enemy lines of inconsolable grief. And the man’s mind is still so alive that it seems churlish to ding this movie for being so — God, this isn’t the word I want to use, but I must — lifeless. Sadly, the inertia eventually gets to us. Read full review
40
Total FilmJames MottramMay 22, 2024
As ever, Cronenberg leaves you with much to chew on, but dramatically The Shrouds feels rather inert, as if it can’t get out of second gear Read full review
40
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganMay 20, 2024
Its sly irony is muffled by a convoluted, fatally tedious plot. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 20, 2024
The Shrouds has potential to be morbidly hilarious, deeply twisted and strange, or rather moving: the fact that it only feints in those directions, while prioritising several less fruitful ones, makes it the steepest disappointment of Cronenberg’s late career. Read full review
40
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 20, 2024
As The Shrouds goes on, it becomes more earnest and more nutty. I think Cronenberg thinks he’s making movies that audiences will experience as feature-length versions of his own dreams. Here’s the difference: When you’re in a dream, you believe what’s happening. Read full review
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