Cronenberg contemplates grief and decay

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'The Shrouds' might be David Cronenberg's most personal film, a meditation on grief and technology fears. With Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger.

Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. Tha...

The director's latest film digs into an inventive premise about an unnerving tech product designed for mourners.

Cronenberg’s latest film explores grief, love and obsession through a grieving husband’s eerie cemetery invention. 

Whatever else you may expect of David Cronenberg as a distinctive auteur, you’re not expecting the narrative to explode into bits.

Director David Cronenberg's latest looks at loss from some surprising angles.

Our review is in from Cannes

The auteur's latest Cannes competition entry is about a widower businessman who invents a device that allows him to monitor his dead wife.

Vincent Cassel plays a widower who buries his wife in a live-streaming coffin in 'The Shrouds,' an enormously rewarding movie from David Cronenberg.

Review: David Cronenberg's deeply personal film, The Shrouds, is more like his controversial erotic drama Crash than his more recent work.

...a mournful, if macabre, meditation on losing a loved one — as only writer-director David Cronenberg could manage.

Master director David Cronenberg continues to explore squirm-making subjects, always thoughtfully, here with a well-cast Vincent Cassel as a surrogate griever.

‘Andor,’ the ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ prequel series, is back for a stellar Season 2.

The twenty-two films that premièred in the 2024 festival’s main program offered much to savor and revile.

In David Cronenberg’s film, billed as his most personal work, Vincent Cassel plays a grieving husband who has devised a novel way of never letting go.

The director’s latest stars Vincent Cassel as an entrepreneur who mourns the death of his wife by inventing technology that surveils her entombed body.

Beyond the veil of the flesh lies "The Shrouds."

The filmmaker channels his own grief into a thriller about high-tech gravesites, corporate espionage, and the horror of saying goodbye to a loved one.

David Cronenberg doesn't get introspective with his most personal film.

A grieving man invents a way to stay close to his dead wife in David Cronenberg's lumbering Competition entry

David Cronenberg fans will not want to miss his latest, The Shrouds, a strange film inspired by the death of his wife. Here's our review.

David Cronenberg’s latest is an amusingly bonkers study on death, greed, and sex—as only this filmmaker can.

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The Shrouds opens in theaters on April 18. David Cronenberg's films have ofte...

Veteran cult Canadian director David Cronenberg channels personal feelings of grief, loss and enduring love into his latest underpowered but absorbingly weir...

The death-obsessed film isn’t a last will and testament from the filmmaker, but rather evidence that his creativity remains fiercely alive

David Cronenberg's latest body horror, 'The Shrouds', looks at death and grief and stars Diane Kruger, Vincent Cassel, and Guy Pearce.

This week's new films include a Ryan Coogler thriller, a David Cronenberg chiller, and an update of a classic '90s comedy.

Sean Baker sniffs the Oscars with ‘Anora,’ Cronenberg returns, and the ‘I Think You Should Leave’ experience hits the big screen

Cannes 2024: Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger star in a movie inspired by the 2017 death of the director's wife

From 'Sinners' and 'Warfare' to a new John and Yoko doc.

Vincent Cassel plays a kind of Cronenberg surrogate, who is mourning the death of his wife...by watching her corpse through a digital gravestone.

There’s adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas. But none of it really fits together.