Cosmopolis Reviews

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-

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

| 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

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

... 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

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

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Throws heady ideas at you faster than Michael Bay can explode a building, but the rate at which ideas stick is inconsistent. It does, however, develop a rhythm. The metered language forces you to adjust just as emotion develops.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A master filmmaker's rumination on capitalism as a vision of diseased titanium

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If there has ever been a point in human history when the phrase "asymmetrical prostate" got a bigger laugh than it does [here], I've never heard of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

If Cosmopolis remains chilly and remote, it does so in a way that often feels unsettlingly familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Though hardly a crowd-pleaser. it's the sort of challenging, thought-provoking, stylistically striking piece of auteurism one rarely encounters nowadays.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

Cosmopolis deconstructs language, symbols and theories to present a sprawling and dense post-GFC Heart of Darkness.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5