Velvet Buzzsaw: Thrilling trailer for film starring Jake Gyllenhaal
Velvet Buzzsaw is director Dan Gilroy and Jake Gyllenhaal's second collaboration. The thriller had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2019. The Netflix film is set in the shallow, vapid world of L.A.’s contemporary art scene, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.
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What do critics say about Velvet Buzzsaw?
The Netflix thriller currently holds a respectable 68 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Its audience score is only a mediocre 48 per cent.
The Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus reads "If you only watch one art-world satire with horror overtones this year -- or most others -- it should probably be Velvet Buzzsaw."
There is a deep irony in the critics' consensus, however, which shouldn't be lost.
After all, it isn't as if there are many art-world satirical movies with horror overtones this year, or at all.
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Velvet Buzzsaw: The Jake Gyllenhaal Netflix movie has a decent score on Rotten Tomatoes (Image: Netflix)
Inkoo Kang for Slate
Its ideas are silly, but Jake Gyllenhaal delivers them with such goofy passion that who cares?
Anne Cohen for Refinery29
Velvet Buzzsaw is a captivating, silly, delicious, decadent mess. It's the cronut of movies, a pointless treat I never thought I'd need, orwant,until it was put right in front of me.
Emma Simmonds for The List
It gives us a world in which everyone has a dreadful name.
Hannah Woodhead for Little White Lies
A rushed and scattershot affair.
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Emily Yoshida for New York Magazine/Vulture
Velvet Buzzsaw is perhaps the first-ever art-world horror satire, but it has the feeling of a bawdy night at a mystery dinner or an anti-Establishment mummers' play - and I mean this in the most complimentary way possible.
Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly
Gilroy has a lot to say about money, mindless consumerism, and the soul-sucking emptiness of conflating ownership and ego-stroking with self-worth.
David Ehrlich for indieWire
A film that's every bit as shiny and hollow as those colourful balloon animals that Jeff Koons has sold for millions of dollars.
Peter Travers for Rolling Stone
With a roster including Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and Toni Collette, director Dan Gilroy's L.A. art-scene thriller has tons of promise - until the violence breaks out.
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Velvet Buzzsaw: Jake Gyllenhaal and Toni Collette star in the Netflix thriller (Image: Netflix)
David Sims for The Atlantic
Velvet Buzzsaw is a pretty soulless piece of art about the soullessness of art, but that doesn't mean it can't have a little fun proving its point.
Brian Lowry for CNN.com
It's a modest twist on an old horror formula, where -- like snotty teenagers -- the viewer isn't supposed to feel especially guilty about watching the characters potentially become victims.
Glen Weldon for NPR
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Brian Tallerico for RogerEbert.com
A wildly inconsistent film, sometimes disappointingly clunky and as superficial as the world it's mocking, but it's also an ambitious piece of work with unforgettable imagery and an ace ensemble.
Velvet Buzzsaw: John Malkovich's performance in the Netflix thriller has been praised by critics (Image: Netflix)
Noel Murray for Los Angeles Times
While the art world caricatures are hardly fresh, there's a lot about "Velvet Buzzsaw" that's pretty savvy and even inspired.
Glenn Kenny for the New York Times
The confident storytelling and the bravura acting - Daveed Diggs, Toni Collette and John Malkovich contribute compelling caricatures - carry Buzzsaw all the way home.
Velvet Buzzsaw is available to stream on Netflix now.
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