Cosmopolis
Entertainment One | Release Date: August 17, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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20
Mixed:
12
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3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The PlaylistSimon AbramsAug 15, 2012
Everything matters in Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, but not everything is necessarily the same as DeLillo's book. And that makes the film, as a series of discussions about inter-related money-minded contradictions, insanely rich and maddeningly complex. We can't wait to rewatch it. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineBud WilkinsAug 12, 2012
Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg's film plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 16, 2012
A cold, funny number about the erotics of money and the seduction of death. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 16, 2012
Conventional it is not. Engrossing it is. Read full review
80
Boxoffice MagazineDavid EhrlichAug 15, 2012
It's Cronenberg's most willfully weird movie since "Spider," and it should prove a tough sell despite Pattinson's ample star power. Read full review
80
VarietyJustin ChangAug 7, 2012
An eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, Cosmopolis probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves. Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 7, 2012
Director David Cronenberg - who knows a thing or two about bodily expressions - understands, finally, what to do with the Twilight star, turning his zombified handsomeness into a stark canvas upon which we can project our own anxieties. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAug 24, 2012
Cosmopolis may be a cerebral mood piece, but it is loaded with strong performances that connect on an emotional level. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 16, 2012
This mesmerizing mind-bender ought to prove two things: (1) Robert Pattinson really can act; (2) Director David Cronenberg never runs from a challenge. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnAug 16, 2012
Since 2005's "A History of Violence," Cronenberg has ventured beyond the grotesque allegorical interests of his earlier movies, a shift that has led some longtime fans to assume he has softened up. As an enjoyably peculiar anti-capitalist indictment, Cosmopolis proves otherwise. Read full review
75
MovielineAlison WillmoreAug 15, 2012
Pattinson does a quietly marvelous thing in finding vulnerability in Eric without making it seem like softness. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyAug 7, 2012
The trouble with Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's faithful-to-a-fault adaptation from Don DeLillo's 2003 novel, is that it's more metaphor than meat. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 23, 2012
Cosmopolis is frustrating, funny, thought-provoking, weird, maddening, worthwhile. It isn't a great movie. Sometimes it's not a good one. Sometimes it is. Ultimately, it is one worth working through, a valuable exercise if you're willing to make the effort. Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid DenbyAug 20, 2012
Cronenberg has made an eccentric and beautiful-looking movie - a languid, deadpan, conceptualist joke. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 18, 2012
Cosmopolis is often beautiful, but at times it feels like a movie sealed off from itself. Read full review
70
SlateDana StevensAug 17, 2012
Because I've long been captivated by Cronenberg's keen intelligence and highly personal cinematic vision, I took a strange pleasure in submitting to this movie's stilted but weirdly poetic rhythms. But I freely acknowledge that for others, enduring Cosmopolis may be less fun than a backseat prostate exam. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn LevyAug 23, 2012
The journey on which he takes us may not satisfy in the ways we normally ask of movies, but if it did it wouldn't be a Cronenberg, would it? Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAug 22, 2012
As a portrait of both man and society in exquisitely poised decline, it's harrowing, hilarious, and horrific in equal measure. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSep 7, 2012
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. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 23, 2012
I just wish Cronenberg hadn't adapted the book on his own. Behind the camera, he does remarkable things, turning Packer's limo into what Cronenberg himself has described as an upscale version of "Das Boot." But the playlets constituting the whole are thick, stubbornly undramatic affairs; the verbiage is lumpy, self-conscious. Read full review
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