Storyline
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 those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
Directors
Cast
John Malkovich, Jake Gyllenhaal, Adam Silver, Marco Rodríguez, Rebecca Klingler, Scott Peat, Zawe Ashton, Gregory Cruz, Nitya Vidyasagar, Christopher Darga, Toni Collette, Ian Alda, Rene Russo, Sal Lopez, Peter Gadiot, Pat Healy, Tom Sturridge, Kevin Carroll, Mark Steger, Billy Magnussen, Rob Brownstein, Kristen Rakes, Steven Williams, Eugene Nomura, James Paxton, Ruth Williamson, Alan Mandell, Time Winters, Keith Bogart, Oz Kalvan, Darren Richardson, G. Larry Butler, Eric Shackelford, Cass Buggé, Natalia Dyer, James Aston Lake, Kassandra Voyagis, Pamela Shaddock, Mig Macario, Daveed Diggs, Mike Ostroski, Sedale Threatt Jr., Andrea Marcovicci, Kanoa Goo, John Fleck, Valentina Gordon, Sydney Lemmon, Jasmin Marsters, Candice Ramirez, Chris Ghaffari, Patrick Quinlan, Brendan Parry Kaufmann, Mark Leslie Ford, Ruth Gilroy, Giulia Chiara Rocca, David Moses, Sofia Toufa, Pisay Pao, Stefan Marks, Scott Broderick, Sitara Falcon, Joanna Strapp, Andrea Helene, Amy Tsang, Sean Riley, Charlotte Taschen, Joel Patino Corona, Lourdes Nadres, Nic Cornett, Stephanie Nash, Tony Jacobsen, Nova DeJhemani, Andrea Bensussen, Tyrone Evans Clark, Damon O'Daniel, Stan Divranos, Monique McKellop, David Alan Graf, Jeremy Russell, Elise Falanga, Robert Artz, Charles Coplin, Joan Urchin, Shantiel Alexis Vazquez, Sam Sami, Courtney Stephens, Dan Gruenberg, Erica Chappell, R Scott Hoffman, Eli Santana, Reuben Boyd, Jeni Jones, Milton Perez
Trailer
Reviews
92
Inventively, Gilroy utilizes exaggerated horror tropes to take to task our cynical thoughts about artistic creation. His sharp Velvet Buzzsaw is an exquisitely diabolical exposé on the merciless materialistic ambitions that run rampant in cultural fields.
83
Velvet Buzzsaw may not be visionary, but it’s a ton of fun.
75
For a lot of its runtime, Velvet 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 — beyond mild bemusement, and a sudden appetite for prime Los Angeles real estate — should be.
70
In her capacity as a film critic — and the sort of populist who was allergic to snobs like Morf — Pauline Kael famously quipped, “Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.” Gilroy doesn’t even aspire to making great art, but he’s getting better at delivering the latter.
70
There’s enough fun, writerly 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.
