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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 31 Jan 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw is never less than a feast for the eyes even when it reduces the plot to B-level butchery…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Jan 2019

With its silvery sheen and sexy lure of celebrity actors being naughty, the film recalls the decadent, self-consciously chic art it parodies…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 31 Jan 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw doesn’t lead anywhere inward; it becomes just a litany of (exquisite) death scenes for art-world caricatures…

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By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 31 Jan 2019

Disappointing and confounding, Velvet Buzzsaw can ultimately be filed under What Could Have Been given the kind of talent involved…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for The New York Times (9,847) on 30 Jan 2019

The confident storytelling and the bravura acting — Daveed Diggs, Toni Collette and John Malkovich contribute compelling caricatures —…

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By Matt Fowler (109) for IGN (1,013) on 30 Jan 2019

The film's a fun and humble horror offering set among the world of pretension and status…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 30 Jan 2019

While the art world caricatures are hardly fresh, there’s a lot about Velvet Buzzsaw that’s pretty savvy and even inspired…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Jan 2019

In a nutshell, the problem is this: If Gilroy wanted to set a horror movie in the world of art commerce, fine. No problem…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 30 Jan 2019

A great cast and a fairly clever turn into the realm of horror can’t redeem what otherwise feels like a very familiar, very safe piece of satire…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 29 Jan 2019

It’s a wildly inconsistent film, sometimes disappointingly clunky and as superficial as the world it’s mocking, but it’s also an ambitious…

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By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 Jan 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw may not be visionary, but it’s a ton of fun…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Jan 2019

For a lot of its runtime, Velvet is fun and silly and enjoyably outrageous…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 28 Jan 2019

It’s clear between this and Nightcrawler that Gilroy and Gyllenhaal have some kind of gonzo chemistry…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Jan 2019

There’s enough fun, writerly glee and actors enjoying their little rampages to make Velvet Buzzsaw a decent distraction for a couple of hours,…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Jan 2019

In her capacity as a film critic — and the sort of populist who was allergic to snobs like Morf — Pauline Kael famously quipped, “Movies…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 28 Jan 2019

Gilroy avoids the ghoulish extremes of Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals and offers up a believably pretentious battleground…

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By Anthony Kaufman (83) for Screen International (2,241) on 28 Jan 2019

It’s ultimately a forgettable lark, amounting to little more than a spiteful attack on the vapidity of the commercial art-world…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 28 Jan 2019

Gilroy’s film needed to be 60% better or 20% worse in order to transcend the forgettable silliness of its existence, but it could stand the…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jan 2019

If there’s undeniable difficulty in Velvet Buzzsaw’s genre alchemy—its attempt to mix a caustic, half-comic portrait of the gallery set…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Jan 2019

Apologies in advance, but for lack of a better descriptor the whole thing is a mess…

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