Cosmopolis Reviews

Cronenberg is not a director to be daunted by a scenario in which the antihero spends most of his time in a stretch limo. Turning it into a film that interests anyone ... is another matter

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Cronenberg's cold, exacting precision and emotionally removed observation may not grab all viewers, but under those perfect surfaces is a raw horror trying to claw out of the denial.

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"Cosmopolis" is a hypnotic examination of our modern anxieties about the dehumanization brought on by wealth, power, and technology.

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While not one of Cronenberg's stronger films, this anti-capitalist adaptation still merits attention.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Robert Pattinson works mighty hard to make Cosmopolis more than just an erudite slap at modern capitalism. The Twilight heartthrob ultimately fails to rescue a meandering story hitting stale versions of the same talking points.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The anger over the injustice of the financial collapse and bailout is what powered the Tea Party movement as well as the Occupy Wall Street movement, and it powers this movie, too.

Full Review | Original Score: B

For those who like their Cronenberg thick and chewy

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

For better or worse - often both - Cosmopolis is a quintessential David Cronenberg film. Cosmopolis is simultaneously fascinating and impenetrable, profound and absurd, labyrinthine yet intimate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

For one of the smartest films I've seen in a while, Cosmopolis is also one of the least outwardly enjoyable. That by no means makes it anything less than a great film however.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Its major problem is that it's not cinematic.

Full Review | Original Score: B

It's fascinating to watch Pattinson actually acting, rather than merely brooding through another "Twilight" movie, but he's as trapped in Cronenberg's sterile intellectualism as Packer is in his leather-upholstered hell.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A black comedy as dry and deadpan as a bleached skull. To this end, the movie opens with a sort of death's-head grin: an in-your-face closeup of the grille of a stretch limousine...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

For all the doomsday build-up we get in the first 90 minutes, Packer's primary antagonist turns out to be such a mundane construct you can't help but feel crestfallen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

While 'Cosmopolis' is mostly emotionless and a big letdown it isn't completely boring and has the potential to be better with repeat viewings, but it just isn't as good as a Cronenberg film should be.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

In the past, Cronenberg has used such deadpan performances to striking effect, but in the case of Cosmopolis, the approach just leaves a giant vaccum in the soul of the celluloid

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

... a movie about a sentient zombie, trapped in a womblike limousine while outside the dead souls of Manhattan roil, spraying paint on his windows and hurling rats. Everything he wants is posthumous.

Full Review | Original Score: 89/100

Those who said Don DeLillo's book was unfilmable were wrong. This is a film. That much is undeniable. Whether it's a compelling one is a whole other question.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The rapid dialogue is dry and mannered, like a David Mamet play, there's virtually no story and Cronenberg's visual scheme is cold and claustrophobic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

"Cosmopolis" is proof that a film can be provocative yet completely un-enjoyable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

It's fascinating but anti-cinematic and a frustrating film to get your arms around.

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