At Eternity's Gate

Finds Willem Dafoe pulling off an acting tour de force as the deteriorating, emotionally and mentally unstable artist.

It takes an impressive stance on the visuals.

Haggardly embodied by Dafoe, Vincent is an ingenuous, socially alienated figure aghast at the suffering he must endure.

At Eternity's Gate is about a man who enjoys being engulfed by emotion. The movie that frames his rapture, though full of beautiful moments, is near wild heaven, but not near enough.

For all the feverish visual invention, there's a sluggishness to the storytelling that seems at odds with the frenzied creativity of the film's subject.

Schnabel, himself a painter, is going for an internal portrait, and At Eternity's Gate comes as close to that as we could have hoped.

The gorgeous locales, Dafoe’s impassioned and affecting portrayal, the exquisite piano chords from Tatiana Lisovskaya score all work together to help us see things as Vincent sees them.

Mixes fact and fiction to provide a look at Van Gogh's tortured mental state during his final years.

At Eternity's Gate is a dreamlike work of art.

At once austere and avant-garde the camera layers the pictures we see while it presents a subtle visual texture of what it could be like to find the world as van Gogh did.