The Shrouds

"Morgue-like coldness eventually reveals itself to be deeply comforting to some degree."

"An alternately intrigued and critical fascination with the ways technology encroaches on humanity."

"Freshly painful familiarity with human fragility."

"Overstuffed and often clunky..."

"Even a minor Cronenberg film is, by any measure, a major work."

"Wanders off into reverie..."

"A Cronenbergian body horror of integrity and force."

"The filmmaker -- not only one of Canada’s greatest creations, but cinema’s, too -- has delivered what might be his career-defining masterpiece."

"Lets the grief, the real lived experience of witnessing death, inform its most honest moments."

"A wail of grief, an expression of love, a testament to the body."

"Throbs with raw, human, horrific honesty."

"The pace feels deliberate throughout, almost at times ceremonial."

"Kassel translates grief into a restless electrical energy."