Velvet Buzzsaw

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Inventively, Gilroy utilizes exaggerated horror tropes to take to task our cynical thoughts about artistic creation. His sharp Velvet Buzzsaw is an exquisitely diabolical exposé on the merciless materialistic ambitions that run rampant in cultural fields.”

  Carlos Aguilar, TheWrap · 92

• “The confident storytelling and the bravura acting — Daveed Diggs, Toni Collette and John Malkovich contribute compelling caricatures — carry “Buzzsaw” all the way home.”

  Glenn Kenny, The New York Times · 90

• “With a combination of bone-dry wit and blood-drenched horror, writer-director Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw skewers some of the most pretentious denizens of the art world you’d ever want NOT to meet — and does so with precision and flair and pitch-black humor.”

  Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times · 88

• “Velvet Buzzsaw may not be visionary, but it’s a ton of fun.”

  Dan Mecca, The Film Stage · 83

• “For a lot of its runtime, Velvet is fun and silly and enjoyably outrageous. It’s hard, though, to walk away with a real sense of anything more than blood on the canvas and a blank where your feelings — beyond mild bemusement, and a sudden appetite for prime Los Angeles real estate — should be.”

  Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly · 75