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The Shrouds

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Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals.
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Ruminating on the love within loss, The Shrouds is a personal and peculiar examination of grief by director David Cronenberg.

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Sergio Burstein Los Angeles Times While this circumstance might disappoint those hoping for a work with a greater immediate impact, it is clear proof that the author's intellectual level remains intact at 82 years of age. [Full review in Spanish] Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Danny Leigh Financial Times The thriller-ish notes have a vagueness you might find playful or exasperating. Dialogue can be mannered. Still. We shouldn’t be blasé about a filmmaker this fascinated with ideas — the real stuff of life. Rated: 3/5 Jul 14, 2025 Full Review Mark Kermode Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube) Cronenberg is as lively and as nimble with his ideas as he ever was. Jul 14, 2025 Full Review Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) How does the artist’s internal struggle — quasi-immortalized by the artist’s externalization of that struggle — change when faced with the blind spots/fallacies of the truth they attempted to chase with that externalization? Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Jason Shawhan Nashville Scene Regardless of where the ride of The Shrouds takes you and lets you out, this film flips all manner of switches in the subconscious and does not immediately vacate the premises. Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Diana Tuova Spotlight on Film If there is any director today who deserves to make any film and in whatever way they want without undue criticism, it is David Cronenberg, but his self-indulgent, increasingly unfocused approach in The Shrouds still simply exasperates. Rated: 3/5 Aug 17, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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shareef mcintosh Terrible, no plot, no action, no suspense, no thrills Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/17/25 Full Review Ian A very strange meditation on grief that could only come from the mind of David Cronenberg. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/17/25 Full Review scott w Can you give less than a half? What was this movie even about? Holy cow was this boring. I will say, I’d like to see what the main actor could do in a real movie. He is an excellent protagonist. I can’t believe they actually got Guy Pearce (doing his best Greg Kinnear impression) to do this movie. It had something to do with being able to use tech to watch a buried body rot and how foreign governments could use it to spy? Then the movie just ended. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/06/25 Full Review Jontinez It was heartbreaking, unnerving, and unsatisfying. The film was far too wrapped up in its paranoia. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/06/25 Full Review R Very slow paced. Interesting topic and a tiny. Hard to make sense of some of it. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/04/25 Full Review DeWayne I love to see obscure, and weird movies. This one was a bit weirder than I expected. I'll be patient through the set up because hopefully the ending is satisfying enough to be worth my patience. I'm still not sure how I feel about this movie. it was definitely intriguing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/12/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals.
Director
David Cronenberg
Producer
Saïd Ben Saïd, Anthony Vaccarello, Martin Katz
Screenwriter
David Cronenberg
Distributor
Sideshow / Janus Films
Production Co
Prospero Pictures
Rating
R (Some Violent Content|Language|Graphic Nudity|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 18, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 8, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA)
$755.9K
Runtime
1h 59m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
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