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Crimes of the Future

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2022

2022

David Cronenberg

Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Don McKellar ...

5.7

5,248

Sci-Fi. Drama. Horror A deep dive into the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings, in a world with no pain. This evolution moves humans beyond their natural state and into a metamorphosis, altering their biological makeup.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"David Cronenberg goes full Cronenberg (...) As has often been the case with the director’s second-tier work, the approach is too cold and cerebral to, ahem, get under the skin."
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"A speculative horror-comedy as wildly deranged as it is beautifully controlled (...) it’s marvelous to have Cronenberg back and to behold his undimmed, unparalleled skill at welding the formulations of horror and science fiction to the cinema of ideas"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"David Cronenberg's hazy mood piece may not be as gross as advertised, but it's also so much sweeter than anticipated (...) Don’t get me wrong, “Crimes of the Future” is Cronenberg to the core"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The film lures you in and tugs you along, abetted by Howard Shore’s fantastic score, which at times suggests the slow movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony as rewritten by Boris Karloff."
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Cronenberg continues to plumb his obsessions, both narrative and visual, and he brings enough energy and bravado to the mix to make this an oft-told story that he’s recounting as though for the first time."
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Aside from a few neat visual tricks, the film unfurls mostly in shadows and corners, and so do its characters' inner lives. There's not much to grab onto logic-wise, because so little is revealed"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"In some sense, 'Crimes of the Future' is an epically and operatically huge black comedy of outrage (...) a body-horror atrocity exhibition in the Ballardian style that [Cronenberg] gave us in 'Crash' (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Cronenberg’s newest body-horror is sick – and not in a good way (...) There’s no shock of the new in Crimes of the Future' (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Todd McCarthy Deadline	"What could have been a grossly and even off-puttingly gruesome display of torturous experiments and corporal corruption has been treated with an unexpectedly light and even playful hand"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"The film is more style piece than narrative story"
		Simon Crook Empire	"Hypnotic, maddening, pervy and disturbing. In other words, vintage Cronenberg. The doomy slow-burn won’t be to all tastes, but its abstract, feverish images are pure nightmare fuel (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"This distinctive old friend of a feature, Cronenberg is back to reclaim the word Cronenberg; mis-applied to so many features ever since, and now back where it belongs"
		Nicholas Barber BBC	"With this cast, and this premise, what a fantastic mini-series it might be. As it is, though,[it] returns pleasingly to the obsessions of his earlier films, without reaching the heights of many of them (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		JIMMYO JoBlo	"A stylish, unsettling tale. It is one that has stayed with me days after viewing. If you are salivating over the promise of David Cronenberg returning to the psycho-sexual horrific visions of the old, then this is for you"
		Jordan Hoffman AV Club	"'Crimes Of The Future' revisits ideas and iconography from David Cronenberg's past (...) unmoored, dreamlike meditation on the filmmaker’s recurrent topics"
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"The cast occasionally [approaches] it like a tonal puzzle they haven't quite solved (...) There's more than enough here to hope that Cronenberg has a masterpiece or two yet to be emerge from within (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Charles Bramesco The Playlist	"Cronenberg can continue pushing the envelope simply by being himself (...) He can thrive within a world and culture in its death throes. He's created one last safe haven for his fellow degenerates"
		Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"[It] may be the closest that Cronenberg has come to making a pure film noir (...) Yet for all its mysteries and labyrinthine plot, 'Crimes of the Future' is an oddly poignant film about not resisting what the future brings"
		Rory O'Connor The Film Stage	"It's dazzling and uneven, seductive and flawed, and only Cronenberg could have made it. There's no beating the genuine article"
		Donald Clarke Irish Times	"'Crimes of the Future' gets at familiar Cronenbergian concerns about decay and mortality. It relishes its own queasiness (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Katz Cineuropa	"A haunting look at a future (...) Cronenberg has been able to invest his work with an air of such lyricism, here making 'Crimes of the Future' masterful and intellectually stimulating"

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