Velvet Buzzsaw's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
A deliciously vicious satire unafraid to use campy gore to assert its commentary on commodified art.
Collider
Because the whole film is played like a supernatural slasher, you?re always having fun while still appreciating what the film has to say
Entertainment Weekly
'Velvet Buzzsaw' 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 should be.
The Hollywood Reporter
There's enough fun, glee and actors enjoying their little rampages to make 'Velvet Buzzsaw' a decent distraction for a couple of hours, but also something of a schizophrenic case all its own.
Variety
It's hardly great art, but Dan Gilroy's Netflix-bound horror satire packs an undeniably trashy appeal as it skewers the snobbish world of galleries
Vulture
Even if 'Velvet Buzzsaw' starts to sputter slightly after it's made its point, it's plenty exciting to witness the incredibly specific madness they whip up together.
The Guardian
Despite flaws, there's a strange curiosity that propels 'Velvet Buzzsaw' and Gilroy's unusual, bitter, silly, and often very funny genre cocktail does make for a fun diversion
The Playlist
Not only is there really no one to root for, but even if you are hoping a character dies the death scenes themselves are pretty much uninspired
Indiewire
It's a dull-witted joke about the violent relationship between art and commerce, and the punchline is that it's therefore the Platonic ideal of a Netflix movie
Screen Daily
There's nothing lampooned here that we haven't already seen before, whether it be a pretentious art critic or avaricious art dealers. Gilroy's only main innovation is finding new ways to kill them off.