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Crimes of the Future movie review: absolutely barking but ultimately satisfying

Cronenberg’s latest prioritises atmosphere over plot but Kristen Stewart’s performance makes everything feel urgent

Evening Standard

TV tonight: deja vu dating in the search for love

More matches, mis-matches and awkward moments in First Dates Hotel. Plus, Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The Fly: 96 minutes of grotesque, vomit-soaked bedlam – and David Cronenberg’s best film

With Crimes of the Future now in cinemas, we revisit the director’s 1986 body horror classic starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis

The Guardian - AU

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Crimes of the Future: Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart toy with pleasure and pain in David Cronenberg body horror

Surgery is entertainment and pain is a thing of the past in David Cronenberg's dystopian blend of neo-noir detective story and visceral body horror: Crimes of the Future.

ABC News

Kristen Stewart’s 20 best performances – ranked!

From Spencer to Still Alice, and now David Cronenberg’s bonkers new horror sci-fi Crimes of the Future, we rate the Twilight star’s finest work

The Guardian - UK

What links Beavis and Butt-Head to Kristen Stewart, via David Cronenberg?

Ease yourself into the rabbit hole, with Douglas Coupland and the slacker generation

The Guardian - UK

Never made, destroyed, in a locked safe for 100 years: with Batgirl cancelled, here are 5 other films we will never get to see

Batgirl has become the latest film to be added to a growing list of movies we will never get to see. The US$90 million film had been shot and largely edited, but now the whole thing will be consigned to the cutting room floor.

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Unmade, destroyed, locked away: With Batgirl cancelled, here are five other films we’ll never see

The US$90 million film had been shot and largely edited, but now the whole thing joins other films in being consigned to the cutting room floor.

The New Daily

Review: Rebecca Hall’s thrilling performance breathes life into the creepy ‘Resurrection’

What makes Margaret run? In the darkly arresting, committedly preposterous psychothriller “Resurrection,” she races up and down city streets, her limbs pumping like pistons, a furious spring in her every accelerated step. It’s her morning exercise regimen, but her demonic pace and half-panicked, half-determined expression suggest something else; Margaret, played…

Los Angeles Times

'Crimes of the Future' is David Cronenberg’s most transcendent movie yet

With his latest work, David Cronenberg has conjured a cinematic universe of aesthetics and ideas. But what does 'Crimes of the Future' mean?

Inverse

David Cronenberg on the evolution to 'Crimes of the Future'

A remarkable number of the films by David Cronenberg could easily be called "Crimes of the Future." In fact, he already used the title once before, on a short feature in 1970. His latest film, also called "Crimes of the Future" but unrelated to the earlier work apart from the…

Los Angeles Times

David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future Is a Gross-Out Sci-Fi Film About Bodily Autonomy

Disturbing, eerie, and strangely relevant, it's a return to form for the Canadian horror master.

Reason

‘Crimes of the Future’ review: Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg present a cold, feral vision of the future

A chillingly beautiful dare of a movie, David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” imagines a near-future much like the present, only colder and more feral.

Chicago Tribune

From The Fly to A History of Violence: our writers pick their favourite Cronenberg movies

With the release of the director’s latest body horror Crimes of the Future, Guardian writers have singled out their most-loved Cronenberg offerings

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘Crimes of the Future’: Commentary’s sharp and so are the scalpels in the year’s freakiest film

People are cutting their mutating bodies in David Cronenberg’s unsettling but thought-provoking dystopian nightmare.

France 24

Film show: David Cronenberg's dystopian sci-fi horror blends surgery and sex

Fresh from her 34th trip to the Cannes Film Festival, FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson shares her highlights from the 75th edition. One of her favourites is "Crimes of the Future", an eerie dystopian tale starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux as a couple who perform surgery on each…

The Independent UK

David Cronenberg says he ‘harassed’ Viggo Mortensen into starring in Crimes of the Future

Actor had initially wanted to play a ‘cop’ in the film

Bangkok Post

The next step in evolution

The maestro is teasing us, with his favourite instrument: the scalpel. Mechanical, electrified scalpels that split open the flesh -- often, the belly -- like a bulging purse being unzipped. This time, what comes out of the belly is a menagerie of grotesque organs -- organs with neither names nor…

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Léa Seydoux, Once Again, Rules the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival, yet again, belongs to Léa Seydoux. The French actress has already shared in a Palme d’Or at the festival, in 2013 for “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” which made her and Adèle Exarchopoulos the first actors to ever win Cannes’ top prize, which they shared with…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on Body Horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

In David Cronenberg’s "Crimes of the Future," in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee. In Cronenberg’s film, a Cannes Film Festival entry opening June 3 in theaters,…

The Independent UK

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on body horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

In David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee

The Independent UK

Crimes of the Future: Kristen Stewart ‘really f***ing proud’ of improvised scene with Viggo Mortensen

‘That was not in the script,’ actor said

France 24

Cannes 2022: A unique perspective on a 19th-century voyage to Iceland in 'Godland'

All eyes are on the films competing for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but our reporter Olivia Salazar-Winspear has been checking out the “Un Certain Regard” sidebar section. Icelandic director Hlynur Palmason takes us on a cinematic voyage back to 19th-century Iceland in "Godland", as a Danish…

The Guardian - UK

‘The US is completely insane’: David Cronenberg on Roe v Wade at Cannes film festival

The Canadian director made the comments at a press conference for his latest body horror film Crimes of the Future

Los Angeles Times

Movie review: Surgery, sex and superfluous human organs converge in David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’

Early on in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” a speculative horror-comedy as wildly deranged as it is beautifully controlled, we witness a live demonstration that functions as an art show, a medical procedure and a very public seduction. The nearly naked man encased in the large, mechanized sarcophagus is…

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