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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangPart Frederick Wiseman-esque medical study, part endoscopic-horror tour de force, it is a thing to be experienced, ideally in a theater — a movie theater, not an operating one, though the filmmakers have a particular genius for blurring the difference.
- 91IndieWireLeila LatifIndieWireLeila LatifAs much as the new technology that prolongs our lives, and makes a film like De Humani Corporis Fabrica possible exists, there is a devastating truth about the vulnerability of the flesh that lingers.
- 91The PlaylistCarlos AguilarThe PlaylistCarlos AguilarWith its uncompromising and full-frontal depiction of the elements that give us life, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” tests our levels of comfort in accepting we are essentially all decaying entities made of organic material. It also makes us reconsider our relationship with medicine.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerFor viewers who resist the temptation to flee for the nearest exit, this fascinating and probing look at modern surgery is a memorable experience, making us ponder our own humanity as we watch humans reduced to pure flesh-and-blood organisms.
- 90Screen DailyJonathan RomneyScreen DailyJonathan RomneySome cinema hits you in the gut – this film places you right inside the gut, and while it’s not always a pleasant place to be, it’s a visit you’re not likely to forget.
- 90The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe film’s sometimes brusque transitions and decentered perspectives are just as transgressive as any of the graphic imagery.
- 88Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonLucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s film is one of the supreme cinematic examinations of the body’s magnificent malleability.
- 88RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThese caretakers are all too human. The movie somehow turns that into a reason to admire them all the more.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawMuch of the film immerses us in an unknowable, unrecognisable world under the skin, without shape, without what Vesalius wanted to show us in the 16th century. It is an uncanny spectacle.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe surgeries shown here, organs in their place in the crowded human body, functioning or failing, is indeed eye-opening. But the film’s structure is, as an ancient Roman critic would have put it, inportunum et inordinatum.