Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Dalla nuova carne alla nuova economia il passo e’ breve, verrebbe da dire, soltanto che il film non c’e’. Cronenberg si è dimenticato di girarlo davvero. O forse questo è un nuovo dangerous method? Una nuova talking cure, alla base anche del precedente film del maestro canadese?
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Jason Bailey @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: It’s not a bad film–Cronenberg is too competent a craftsman for that, and still quite capable of casting a spell. But it’s the kind of movie you keep waiting to come together, and it doesn’t.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: 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.
- Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: There is sci-fi and there is Cronenberg sci-fi and here he has reached his pinnacle with his hallucinatory, hypnotic trip. We are in Cronenberg’s bubble until he lets it burst.
- Philip Concannon @ Phil on Film
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Then there’s the matter of the screenplay, which places everything in a haze of mannered syntax and enigmatic phrasing.
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: A polemic rather than a film.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Cynical and futile, a total waste of time.
- A.J. Hakari @ CineSlice
- Excerpt: Cosmopolis won’t be an easy watch, but the nice, long period of reflection you’ll need when it’s over will do you wonders.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Honestly, I’m not entirely sure what David Cronenberg’s point is here…
- Kevin Laforest Laforest @ Montreal Film Journal
- Josh Larsen @ LarsenOnFilm.com
- Excerpt: …the bodily invasions are not only reflective of a psychological state, but of a socioeconomic one as well.
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Don Lewis @ Film Threat
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: The film is a hard film to like, ultimately because there are none of the typical pleasures associated with escapist cinema nor are there any clear-cut messages or arthouse gimmicks. Cosmopolis is a very esoteric and somewhat unique film, which is difficult to categorize and even harder to qualitatively appraise.
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Excerpt: Despite an interesting stance, and a healthy dose of Cronenberg’s weirdness, “Cosmopolis” falls short as a narrative.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: It’s an abstract, avante-garde waste of time, that begins slow and grinds painfully to a halt.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- [New – 7/18] | Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …a talky, symbolic and obliquely philosophical movie, for sure, and it will turn most viewers off. But, in its confused way, it does reflect our current psychology of income-gap anger and financial-apocalypse anxiety.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: David Cronenberg’s adaption of Don DeLillo’s 2003 dystopian novel contains a lot of ideas — too many for the film to sink its teeth into.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
- Phil Villarreal @ OK Magazine
- Excerpt: I can’t convince myself that Cosmopolis is anything other than unscripted documentary about the life of Robert Pattinson, shot by security cameras.
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monstersandcritics.com
- Excerpt: The program is secure, but are we?
