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1999
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Through a shocking sequence that plays like an oblique explanation of its title, David Cronenberg’s evasive mind-and-body-bender “Crimes of the Future” cracks open in its early moments, tracing a harrowing crime that gets committed during some nondescript time in the future, in the grim corners of a near-derelict home. It’s a nimble ...
Quintessential if not classic Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future finds the director revisiting familiar themes with typically unsettling flair. Read Critics Reviews
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Jun 2, 2022 · ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror. In his latest shocker, David Cronenberg prophetically reads the signs while Léa Seydoux performs surgeries on a beatific Viggo...
Jun 3, 2022 · David Cronenberg's film is set in a grim future where humans, having lost the ability to feel physical pain, start operating on their own bodies. This movie mixes blood and guts with great...
Jun 6, 2022 · Richard Brody reviews the dystopian fantasy, and body-horror-centric, “Crimes of the Future,” directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart.
May 30, 2022 · Crimes of the Future is a return to science fiction from director David Cronenberg, starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart.
Jun 2, 2022 · Crimes of the Future isn’t just the first film from Canada’s favorite cinematic son (and a contender for the greatest living contemporary horror filmmaker) in eight years; it’s a return to...
May 24, 2022 · David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is both elegant and rather silly.
May 25, 2022 · Crimes of the Future: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Sotiris Siozos, Lihi Kornowski, Scott Speedman, Viggo Mortensen. Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations.
Seydoux gives the film’s best performance: even wrenching moments are played at a glassy remove. But unlike Cronenberg’s Crash, which shook Cannes to the core in 1996, there’s no shock of the new in Crimes of the Future – a crucial requirement for every true festival coup de scandale.
