A.V. Club
This slow-paced, action-light film... is an unmoored, dreamlike meditation on the filmmaker’s recurrent topics: transgressive sex, art and politics, nightmarish visions of organic matter.
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Crimes of the Future
David Cronenberg remakes his own 1970 sci-fi-horror film of the same name, with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Scott Speedman.
'A deep dive into the not-so-distant future in which humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings. This evolution moves humans beyond their natural state and into a metamorphosis, which alters their biological makeup. While some embrace the limitless potential of transhumanism, others attempt to police it.' (Official synopsis).
2022Rating: R107 minsCanada, France, GreeceSerendipity Point Films, Argonauts Productions S.A., Ingenious Media, Téléfilm Canada, CBC, Bell Media Studios, Neon
HorrorScience Fiction
- Director:
- David Cronenberg ('Videodrome', 'A Dangerous Method')
- Writer:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Viggo MortensenLéa SeydouxKristen StewartScott SpeedmanWelket BunguéDon McKellarLihi KornowskiTanaya BeattyYorgos KaramihosYorgos Pirpassopoulos
Crimes of the Future | Reviews
85%34 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Los Angeles Times
It’s marvelous to have Cronenberg back and to behold his undimmed, unparalleled skill at welding the formulations of horror and science fiction to the cinema of ideas.
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Hollywood Reporter
The film offers up more mysteries than it solves. Still, riveting work from Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux... will draw the curious to this Neon release.
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The Guardian
It’s an extraordinary planet that Cronenberg lands us down on, and insists we remove our helmets before we’re quite sure we can breathe the air.
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RogerEbert.com
Provocatively feverish stuff from the dearly missed vintage annals of Cronenberg.
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Total Film
Crimes Of The Future feels authentically part of the filmmaker’s uniquely weird oeuvre... even if the low-energy, overly-talky, oddly open-ended script doesn’t hit the heights of his ’80s heyday.
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Time Out
There’s more than enough here to hope that Cronenberg still has a masterpiece or two yet to (emerge)...
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Entertainment Weekly
There's not much to grab onto logic-wise, because so little is revealed. That leaves Cronenberg's gifted cast to pile intrigue and emotion on a mostly blank page.
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Time Magazine
Crimes of the Future is silly and elegant, and it might make you squirm a little...
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The Times
It is immediately one of the great mysteries of cinema that a film featuring mutant ballet dancers, open-air surgery and eroticised wound-licking could be punishingly dull, but the veteran director David Cronenberg has managed it.
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The Irish Times
But a Cronenberg sketch – and that’s what it feels like – offers more to chew over than most bloated epics.
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Little White Lies
There are a lot of long conversations which ultimately don’t say a great deal.
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South China Morning Post
Some will balk at the slow pacing... but with committed performances, humour and twisted imagery, it’s Cronenberg at his best.
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Crimes of the Future | Release Details
Crimes of the Future is coming to cinemas in Australia on 10 June 2022.