TÁR

"A film of rare elegance and sophistication."

— Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com

"A colossal performance from Cate Blanchett."

— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

"Tár, Field’s first film in 16 years, is extraordinary."

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time

"One of the boldest and most exciting new American movies I’ve seen in years."

— David Ehrlich, indieWire

"The film wields its intelligence and style with total effortlessness, and its every move holds your gaze like a baton’s quivering tip."

— Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

"The movie belongs to Blanchett, in a turn so exacting and enormous that it feels less like a performance than a full-body possession."

— Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

"The movie is breathtaking — in its drama, its high-crafted innovation, its vision. It’s a ruthless but intimate tale of art, lust, obsession, and power."

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety

"[Todd Fields] plays it icy cool, shooting Berlin in elegantly muted tones and orchestrating his drama with a surgical precision worthy of peak Michael Haneke."

— Raphael Abraham, Financial Times

"Recalling the likes of All About Eve and Amadeus, TÁR asks pertinent questions about cancel culture, artistic integrity and gender, while also providing a primer on orchestral politics and musical history."

— Jane Crowther, Total Film

"Tár marks yet another career peak for Blanchett — many are likely to argue her greatest — and a fervent reason to hope it’s not 16 more years before Field gives us another feature. It’s a work of genius."

— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

"The remarkable details in how information is revealed entirely through a central performance is the reason TÁR excites. Not what it has to say, but how it tells us the story through a dual execution of performance and writing preparation."

— Brian Formo, Collider

"I mean it as the highest compliment when I say that Lydia Tár herself is not so easily extricated from the artist who plays her, in the sense — and only in the sense — that we are watching one genius incarnate another. At the risk of indulging more musical metaphors, her work here feels genuinely, breathtakingly symphonic in its arrangement of components. I didn’t want it to end."

— Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

"TÁR is breathtaking entertainment, beautifully tailored in luxe, eerie Euro sleekness by production designer Marco Bittner Rosser and cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, and ominously scored by Hildur Guðnadóttir (who gets a little meta shout-out in the film). That fine craftsmanship is all anchored by Blanchett’s alternately measured and ferocious performance, a tremendous (but never outsized) piece of acting that is her most piercing work in years."

— Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair