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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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

How lucky we are to have this boundary pusher still thinking up such bold and provocative films.

Rated: 3.5/4

Apr 23, 2025

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Barry Hertz

Globe and Mail

With The Shrouds, the filmmaker -- not only one of Canada’s greatest creations, but cinema’s, too -- has delivered what might be his career-defining masterpiece.

Apr 21, 2025

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

The Shrouds may sound like a thriller but its sleek, icy allure is in presenting Karsh as a pawn to the rabbit hole of his grief, which plays out across the film in speculative, increasingly intimate conversations and erotic detours.

Apr 18, 2025

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Bill Newcott

The Saturday Evening Post

Mostly, The Shrouds stars its 81-year-old director, whose pain finds voice in a film that encapsulates, in the most personal way imaginable, his lifetime of marrying the humane and the horrific.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 23, 2025

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Dan Tabor

Cinapse

If you told me one of the most moving films I would see in 2025 would be by David Cronenberg, I probably wouldn’t have believed you.But The Shrouds is the director at his most vulnerable, using the tropes of his filmography to explore these hefty concepts

Apr 22, 2025

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Ria Dhull

Spectrum Culture

The Shrouds is foremost an exploration of grief. Cronenberg’s latest traces the bodies and shapes grief takes as it adapts to our digital, entangled, schizophrenic world.

Apr 22, 2025

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SAMANTHA C

Another masterpiece in a career composed of them- Viva Cronenberg

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/22/25

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Moody C

At times horror gross though mostly intriguing story but unfortunately meanders and wonders off towards the end.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/22/25

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B P

David Cronenberg Plays His Greatest Hits

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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Ben G

A powerful and personal story of grief told in a unique and original way that only Cronenberg can bring to life.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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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 (Strong Sexual Content|Graphic Nudity|Some Violent Content|Language)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 18, 2025, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $49.4K
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital