Rembrandt's J'accuse Reviews

Like all Greenaway films, it's not for all tastes.

Full Review | Original Score: B

More than merely a resource for art historians and students, "Rembrandt's J'Accuse" is a gift from an underestimated genius of cinema. You might just might want to see it a second time.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

A generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing investigation into the mysteries of the Rembrandt painting The Night Watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

What starts out as an audaciously polemical, radically inventive film project ultimately feels more like the most elaborate and earnest art history lecture ever delivered.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Peter Greenaway's probing doc proves that a single picture really is worth a thousand words%u2026or an 86-minute film.

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[Greenaway] once studied to become a painter himself; apparently, he's harbored dreams of being an amateur sleuth as well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Peering beneath the painted surface and searching in the shadows, tracking that which was cut from the canvas and mapping the network of glances that remain, the filmmaker uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy.

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This immersive tour of the mortal manipulations fueling Europe's 17th-century cultural capital supplies wit and intellect while it starves the emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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