The Shrouds

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The Shrouds

R

Apr 2025

1h 59m

Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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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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Critics Consensus

Ruminating on the love within loss, The Shrouds is a personal and peculiar examination of grief by director David Cronenberg.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Oct 7

It’s morbid, fetishistic and unsettling. But compared to the full-blooded nastiness of his enthusiastically lurid earlier works, The Shrouds, with its glum, moss-coloured photography, feels inert, woolly and ultimately rather tedious.

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Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

Aug 12

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]

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

Jul 14

3/5

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.

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Marcelo Paredes

Cinencuentro

Nov 7

Instead of advancing the exploration of a universe where art and body merge, Cronenberg combines these concerns with reflections on surveillance and control, which, while interesting, don't quite gel. [Full review in Spanish]

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Olivia O'Riada

Film Ireland Magazine

Oct 14

It’s a confrontational and off-putting manner of exploration that will make it a tough sell for many, but The Shrouds is a fascinating exercise in late style from one of the defining voices of the last 50 years of cinema.

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Charlotte Simmons

The Treatment (Substack)

Aug 20

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?

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shareef mcintosh

May 17

Terrible, no plot, no action, no suspense, no thrills

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Ian

May 17

A very strange meditation on grief that could only come from the mind of David Cronenberg.

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scott w

May 6

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.

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Jontinez

May 6

It was heartbreaking, unnerving, and unsatisfying. The film was far too wrapped up in its paranoia.

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R

May 4

Very slow paced. Interesting topic and a tiny. Hard to make sense of some of it.

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DeWayne

May 3

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.

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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 (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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