The Shrouds

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The Shrouds

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Released Apr 18

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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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

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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

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Clarisse Loughrey

Independent (UK)

Maybe that's not how everyone feels about love and the loss of love, but it's so beautifully, erotically, romantically, and compulsively depicted in The Shrouds that the idea sticks to the bones.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 7, 2025

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Drew Dietsch

Giant Freakin Robot

...as a metaphor for David Cronenberg saying, “I’m not done making movies, even if that scares me,” The Shrouds is wrapped in all the things that make him one of our greatest filmmakers.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 15, 2025

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William Stottor

The Indiependent

The Shrouds, the latest film from legendary director David Cronenberg, starts strongly with a promising thematic base, but eventually descends into a chaotic and confused mess.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 14, 2025

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Pete Vonder Haar

Houston Press

It isn't the first time Cronenberg has drawn on personal experiences for his films (The Brood was written during his divorce from Margaret Hindson), and while The Shrouds offers some glimpses into that process, it never fully coalesces.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 12, 2025

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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

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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

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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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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): $270.5K
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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