Tár - Reviews

With Cate Blanchett as his muse, writer-director Todd Field creates an indelible portrait of intellect and expertise waylaid by privilege.

A towering performance from Cate Blanchett.

As masterful as the character it portrays, TÁR is a textured, finely calibrated, stunningly composed, and thoroughly contemporary study. Its chords reverberate long after the music fades.

The “what” of Lydia Tár’s story isn’t important, but the “why” and the “how.”

...it’s the undoing that makes “TÁR” such a tour de force, this long and patient movie growing less abstract and more unflinchingly personal as Lydia reaches the end of her rope.

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

Cate Blanchett is on top form as a conductor who experiences a swift fall from grace in Todd Fields' piercing psychodrama.

No one but Cate Blanchett could have delivered the imperious hauteur necessary for this engrossing movie...

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

...a masterwork. A gripping, grown-up movie superbly orchestrated by Todd Field and perfectly played by a virtuoso, career-best Cate Blanchett.

Blanchett is almost always magnificent, but here she proves herself an absolute master of the craft.