Cosmopolis
Entertainment One | Release Date: August 17, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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20
Mixed:
12
Negative:
3
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50
Washington PostStephanie MerryAug 30, 2012
It feels like each and every moment bursts forth with urgent dialogue, and yet what does anyone actually say? Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 23, 2012
There's not really a movie there, nothing that sustains itself from scene to scene and nothing that's worth watching from beginning to end. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 23, 2012
The novel is extremely funny. It's hilarious as well as horrific (all sorts of bad things are going on outside the limo - and a few inside of it, too). Yet whenever the movie is funny, it feels like a mistake. Comedy has never been a Cronenberg strength. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAug 22, 2012
Its characters are bloodless, their speech monotone. If there are people like this, I hope David Cronenberg's film is as close as I ever get to them. You couldn't pay me to see it again. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 16, 2012
Robert Pattinson must be hellbent on escaping the world of sparkly-skinned undead to take on the starring role in the leaden, obtuse and ultra-pretentious Cosmopolis. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsAug 15, 2012
As Pattinson nears the bottom - both of his fortune, and to all appearances, his sanity - Cronenberg has to take the film somewhere, emptying out into a confrontation between Pattinson and a disgruntled former employee (Paul Giamatti) that never fully ties together all that's come before. Read full review
50
Village VoiceKarina LongworthAug 14, 2012
To the extent that Cosmopolis functions as a super-literal conceptual exercise, it's simultaneously irritating and fascinating. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAug 8, 2012
The film comes off as an elaborately didactic and overheated lecture. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 7, 2012
Alas, in Cronenberg's hands, it just comes across as cold and lifeless and exhausting. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyAug 16, 2012
It is a disappointment coming from writer-director David Cronenberg, who has proved such a master at mind games. Cronenberg is perhaps too faithful to the book. The topic is provocative and certainly timely, but the film never achieves the incisive power of his best work, "A History of Violence" for one. Even an A-list ensemble that includes Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton and Paul Giamatti can't save it. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAug 16, 2012
There are plenty of ideas to gnaw on, given that Cronenberg has adapted Don DeLillo's intense novel of a New York on the verge of dystopian breakdown. But frustratingly bland work from lead Robert Pattinson results in an awfully watery stew. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAug 7, 2012
After a strong run of films during the past decade, David Cronenberg blows a tire with Cosmopolis. Read full review
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