Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
2019
R
113 Minutes
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on thos...
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Velvet Buzzsaw attempts to creatively cut through contemporary commercialism but slices itself in half. The subjectivity of art is one that is often discussed amongst many people. Whilst someone might view a pile of newspapers on a wooden floor as... Read the full review »0 member like this review.
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Although “Velvet Buzzsaw” has a crackerjack premise and one heck of a cinematic pedigree (from writer / director Dan Gilroy), it fails miserably. It is an irritating satire of a film that thinks is far more clever than it actually is, and it b... Read the full review »0 member like this review.
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With a similar acidity to Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy attempts to merge satire and horror in this take on the pretentious contemporary art world. Sadly, the film is muddled. With a plot that takes a while to start and a mutated genre experiment gone... Read the full review »0 member like this review.
