in its rupture from traditional biographical narratives, it does not merely stand out as unconventional biopic-it also comes close to resuscitating the idea of cinema as moving pictures
in "At Eternity's Gate", Van Gogh is returned to his human dimensions, by a keen script and wonderful lead performance, while still being held up as an example of the artist's ability to transcend time
an unbridled portrait of the painful but productive final years in the life of Vincent van Gogh, a role inhabited with the acrid lucidity of madness by Willem Dafoe
by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]
