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Taut, chilling, and overall engrossing, Tom at the Farm offers further confirmation that writer-director Xavier Dolan is a filmmaking talent to be reckoned with.
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Grief, lies and webs of deceit are the flesh-eating monsters. The film exudes a living poetry.... Dolan has the ability to render any banal activity ominous. Jan 28, 2016 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Grief, lies and webs of deceit are the flesh-eating monsters. The film exudes a living poetry.... Dolan has the ability to render any banal activity ominous.
Emily Buder
It's a tentative slow burn about the secrets we keep in the name of love, and it doesn't quite add up. Aug 18, 2015 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
It's a tentative slow burn about the secrets we keep in the name of love, and it doesn't quite add up.
Chris Nashawaty
There's not enough structure to these different threads. It could work on the stage where movement and place and time are necessarily compressed, but on film it feels artificial, not fully worked out. Aug 14, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
There's not enough structure to these different threads. It could work on the stage where movement and place and time are necessarily compressed, but on film it feels artificial, not fully worked out.
Sheila O'Malley
The kind of domestic psychodrama that may have resonated on stage but proves pretentious and hermetical here, after some initial tension. Aug 13, 2015 | Full Review…
The kind of domestic psychodrama that may have resonated on stage but proves pretentious and hermetical here, after some initial tension.
Gary Goldstein
The cross-pollination makes for some nice-looking scenes. Ultimately, though, there's a crop failure. Aug 13, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The cross-pollination makes for some nice-looking scenes. Ultimately, though, there's a crop failure.
Jordan Hoffman
Wildly entertaining, sexy and beautifully shot in the Canadian heartland. Aug 13, 2015 | Full Review…
Wildly entertaining, sexy and beautifully shot in the Canadian heartland.
Stephen Holden
Tom at the Farm certainly has some flaws that are too big to ignore but in terms of genre filmmaking and acting, it's a decent watch. Aug 26, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Tom at the Farm certainly has some flaws that are too big to ignore but in terms of genre filmmaking and acting, it's a decent watch.
Terence Johnson
Violence and sexuality have been explored on screen numerous times, yet Dolan brings a new, semi-successful twist. Aug 22, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Violence and sexuality have been explored on screen numerous times, yet Dolan brings a new, semi-successful twist.
Joseph Walsh
The distance between Dolan and the source material works in the movie's favor, and the shrill histrionics that tend to hamper his more personal work are here tempered by formal rigor. Aug 22, 2018 | Full Review…
The distance between Dolan and the source material works in the movie's favor, and the shrill histrionics that tend to hamper his more personal work are here tempered by formal rigor.
Rubén Rosario
It's all a bit improbable, but Dolan -- who claimed never to have watched any Hitchcock before filming -- pulls off a Master-of-Suspense Psycho-drama, down to the scraping, disturbed violins. Dec 31, 2017 | Full Review…
It's all a bit improbable, but Dolan -- who claimed never to have watched any Hitchcock before filming -- pulls off a Master-of-Suspense Psycho-drama, down to the scraping, disturbed violins.
Kate Muir
Blends psychological-thriller elements with unexpected humor for a thoroughly unsettling plunge into a nightmare of fear and intolerance. Feb 21, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Blends psychological-thriller elements with unexpected humor for a thoroughly unsettling plunge into a nightmare of fear and intolerance.
Jordan Raup
While it sometimes struggles to shake its stagebound roots, there are moments of visual and dramatic beauty along the way. Sep 2, 2015 | Full Review…
While it sometimes struggles to shake its stagebound roots, there are moments of visual and dramatic beauty along the way.
Todd Jorgenson
A much more restrained Xavier Dolan after his pretentious previous film, and he displays an assured direction and firm control of this suspenseful thriller, even though the narrative seems to move too fast as the characters start to act in ways that are not always convincing.
Super Reviewer
I don't believe that I have seen Xavier Dolan on the other side of the camera but this is a nice departure for him to direct and star in the film. the drama works at a nice steady pace as everything is revealed. I shade off a half star for the ending which keeps us a little bit too stranded.
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