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| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsOne thing that lifts this above the type of hospital-based docu-drama that are ten-a-penny on the small screen is that Paravel and Castaing-Taylor locate a uniquely cinematic quality to the footage. |
| The Irish TimesTara BradyThe epic results simultaneously function as endoscopic body horror, as a portrait of overworked and underfunded medical staff and as a business study of death. |
| Los 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. |
| Slant MagazineKeith WatsonLucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s film is one of the supreme cinematic examinations of the body’s magnificent malleability. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThese caretakers are all too human. The movie somehow turns that into a reason to admire them all the more. |
| The 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. |
| Screen 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. |
| The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe film’s sometimes brusque transitions and decentered perspectives are just as transgressive as any of the graphic imagery. |
| The 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. |
| IndieWireLeila 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. |
