The Five Senses Reviews
September 7, 2011
Full Review
| Original Score: C+
August 3, 2009
The second feature by the openly gay Canadian director interweaves in a rather schematic mode but with elegant style the stories of five troubled characters, each standing for one of the senses.
Full Review
| Original Score: C+
December 30, 2006
[A]n uncomfortable, poignant, and often ineffably sad film about death, loss, and loneliness, much of which is left unresolved.
December 6, 2005
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/5
May 14, 2003
Original Score: 2/4
April 29, 2003
You'll probably think in a new way about the sounds and the music, the look of places and people, how much or little you take note of the scents and sensations of daily life.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3.5/4
April 25, 2003
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/4
February 12, 2003
Original Score: 2/5
January 10, 2003
Full Review
| Original Score: C
December 8, 2002
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/5
April 3, 2002
Full Review
| Original Score: B+
March 13, 2002
This engaging and tightly constructed drama explores the role of the senses in the lives of a group of Canadians.
February 4, 2002
Full Review
| Original Score: B
June 19, 2001
Full Review
| Original Score: A-
February 14, 2001
Original Score: 1.5/5
July 14, 2000
Full Review
| Original Score: C+
January 1, 2000
Original Score: 4/4
January 1, 2000
It is refreshing to come across a film that does not wallow obsessively in the human tragedies of its own making.
January 1, 2000
Original Score: 3/4
January 1, 2000
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/4