Crimes of the Future
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'All of the people giving this one star reviews clearly wanted it to be more predictable hollywood crap; it’s not that and it should not be judged as such. It’s a film that makes countless risks that were all actually worth taking and explores vivid, bizarre ideas that are all as fascinating as they are beautiful. Everything about how Crimes of the Future is written, directed and acted is pitch perfect; would absolutely recommend this to anybody who actually cares about film and doesn’t want it to devolve into nothing but franchise garbage.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Clearly I’m slower than most reviewers as I think this (and Cronenberg in general) require multiple viewings and time to reasonably judge. I worried this was going to be Cronenberg cashing-it-in due to all the early grand superficial praise for him returning to his roots. Besides finding his newer films quite brilliant also, I thought his best films always revealed themselves slowly. Like the first time seeing Videodrome, Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers or Crash, unlike his more “conventional” films, I thought this had a similar appeal - I was enthralled, confused, sometimes grossed-out, and artistically thrilled from start to finish. The central thing I took from my initial viewing was that this seems to be semi-autobiographical with Cronenberg questioning what he has done, is doing and invariably will do. Highly recommended and worthy of the long Cronenberg-absence.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'After the dreadful Hollywood hiatus of "Maps to the Stars," almost certainly a film of absolutely no redeeming virtue, if not outright repugnant, and "Cosmopolis" whose only redeeming quality was a giant papier-mache rat, "Crimes of the Future" finds Cronenberg totally lost, but totally lost in his well-known oeuvre. With all the requisite body parts, misshapen organs and dancing ears, Cronenberg is back in familiar territory, his cynical view of society\'s future on full display. Howard Shore\'s reliably brilliant musical score is evident, but so is the missing Peter Suschitzky, which means the cinematography was good but not great. Cronenberg could have borrowed Paul Sarossy from Atom Egoyan to brighten up the very, very dark background. The dialogue was unintelligible, perhaps on purpose, and Mortensen may not have been the best choice for the queen of extra body parts-Jeremy Irons far more suited to body mutations and mutilations. Kristen Stewart is almost always interesting but her cheerleader crush on Mortensen went nowhere. Like the film or not (I am on the fence), it IS a Cronenberg film, and despite the many missteps and miscalculations in this morbid film, there is some relief in knowing and seeing that Cronenberg has returned from his previous anti-Cronenberg "dangerous methods."'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "Saw this in the theater and it was beyond awful. All the hype of how graphic it was, was nothing compared to what I witnessed. I think this movie was just used for shock value(lot of cgi). I've seen a lot of graphic films and this was so boring. No storyline. I had to catch myself like 4 different times falling asleep in the theater. It's not the actors fault, just whoever wrote this is to blame.A group of us laughed at the ending,as we just wasted our time watching this trash. Luckily I saw this for free and if you dare to watch this, I would suggest the same."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Viggo Mortensen sits in things that wobble— masterpiece!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'SICK!!!'}]