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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Keith Phipps

The Reveal (Substack)

It’s Cronenberg’s Finnegans Wake. He’s speaking his own cinematic language now.

Rated: 4/5

May 2, 2025

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Stephanie Zacharek

TIME Magazine

The Shrouds’ true center is Kassel’s performance. He translates grief into a restless electrical energy; you can practically feel it vibrating through his agile, lanky frame.

May 1, 2025

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

The pace feels deliberate throughout, almost at times ceremonial. Karsh describes himself as “a non-observant atheist.” The Shrouds is a bit like that, too.

Rated: 3/4

Apr 25, 2025

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Rubén Rosario

MiamiArtZine

Still, the film is expertly crafted, down to another top-notch collaboration with composer Howard Shore. It's an intriguing footnote for a brilliant career rather than an all-timer, but it'll do.

May 12, 2025

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Sean P. Means

The Movie Cricket

[Cronenberg] seems to understand that Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” has hit the outer barrier of gross-out gore, so Cronenberg has to find a new direction to make his statement.

Rated: 3/4

May 10, 2025

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Oscar Goff

Boston Hassle

This is Cronenberg like we’ve never seen him before, for once wearing his heart on his sleeve figuratively rather than literally.

May 8, 2025

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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

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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

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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

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DeWayne

it was weird, in a good way. a man is obsessed with his wife's body and death, to the point that it haunts him in his subsequent relationships.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/03/25

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GAN

Good performances but it did not hold together and it was too dry. The plot was scattered. Hard to feel grief in the face of this.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/02/25

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Jeff

Typical Cronenberg . . Out There 🤣‼️

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/02/25

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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): $700.3K
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital