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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe film is infectiously somnambulant, so convincingly and unrelentingly dreamlike that its sudden end mimics the sensation of snapping awake from deep sleep.
- 70The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottTo a die-hard Maddinite this may be a little disappointing, but for that reason Keyhole may also be a perfect gateway into the bizarre and fertile world of a unique film artist.
- 70Just as Ulysses illustrates the reflective nature of his journey by constantly turning back the hands of the house's clocks, each film of Maddin's is a reset button for the past. The director operates like a ghost himself, going back over his personal history and the history of cinema in an endless loop until he gets them right.
- 67The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayKeyhole's flashes of actual B-movie coherence are enough to make longtime Maddin-watchers wonder if he could've played this material straighter, with more of a plot and fewer reveries.
- 63Slant MagazineBill WeberSlant MagazineBill WeberA night of reckoning by a hoodlum in his haunted former home is a more sober and remote Freudian farrago than one expects from Guy Maddin.
- 63New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickI have to confess that this surreal departure by the iconoclastic filmmaker tried my patience more than a bit.
- 60VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangMaddin's singular humor and fabulous black-and-white mise-en-scene can't sustain this fever dream beyond its initial fascination, making for an intriguing transitional work unlikely to broaden his audience.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichFor all the undeniable imaginativeness and visual dazzle (this is Maddin's first entirely digital feature, and it positively glistens), Keyhole ultimately comes off like a feature-length private joke that revels a bit too gleefully in its overall inscrutability. Close, Guy. But no Double Yahtzee.
- An exercise in opaque supernatural storytelling that's as frustrating as it is beguiling.