Crimes of the Future
Neon | Release Date: June 3, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 55 Critic Reviews
Positive:
33
Mixed:
19
Negative:
3
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60
The Observer (UK)Mark KermodeSep 11, 2022
Mortensen and Seydoux play it deliciously straight, jumping through the well-rehearsed philosophical and physical hoops with elegant ease, conjuring a sense of yearning humanity that saves the production from descending into silliness… just about. Read full review
60
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJun 6, 2022
Crimes of the Future is, for better and worse, a conceptual film; it’s less an experience than it is an idea, less a drama of characters’ experiences than an allegory for Cronenberg’s despairingly diagnostic view of present-day crimes, ones that society commits against society. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJun 6, 2022
Seydoux may exude voluptuous sensuality, and Stewart may be performing a whispery, dystopian take on a sultry librarian, but the film itself has an aloof, clinical quality. What interests it is not the potential of our physical forms for pleasure and revulsion, but their inevitable failure. Read full review
60
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaJun 2, 2022
More distancing than disgusting, Crimes of the Future strings together great body horror ideas but does little with them. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 25, 2022
Crimes of the Future still has its strengths. Howard Shore’s score lends a tragic, almost stately emotional counterpoint to the steel of the wit. Read full review
60
BBCNicholas BarberMay 25, 2022
Structured as a hardboiled detective thriller, Crimes of the Future has plenty of provocative concepts and images that will put a grin on your face (not least the dancer who has several ears on his face), but you may find yourself willing the plot to pick up momentum, and the ickiness to get a whole lot ickier. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMay 24, 2022
There’s more than enough here to hope that Cronenberg still has a masterpiece or two yet to be emerge from within. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekMay 24, 2022
You might not call this picture a major achievement—it’s both elegant and rather silly—but you can’t fault it for lack of vision. Read full review
60
The IndependentGeoffrey MacnabMay 24, 2022
This is a film rich in ideas but with very little tension or passion. At times, it’s more like a cerebral art gallery installation piece than a full-blooded dramatic movie. Read full review
60
Total FilmJordan FarleyMay 23, 2022
Sex, violence and surgery: the king of body horror is back, but the script could do with a scalpel. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMay 23, 2022
The film offers up more mysteries than it solves. Still, riveting work from Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux as performance artists whose canvas is internal organ mutations will draw the curious. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 23, 2022
Seydoux gives the film’s best performance: even wrenching moments are played at a glassy remove. But unlike Cronenberg’s Crash, which shook Cannes to the core in 1996, there’s no shock of the new in Crimes of the Future – a crucial requirement for every true festival coup de scandale. Read full review
58
ColliderRoss BonaimeJun 3, 2022
Cronenberg certainly still knows how to create arresting imagery and craft stories that can make the audience squirm, but the story that isn’t being told with Crimes of the Future is far more interesting than the one he has decided to focus on, which often feels like regurgitating concepts he’s already handled before. Read full review
58
Original-CinThom ErnstMay 31, 2022
Again, this is Cronenberg, and I would expect nothing less than an obscure narrative and underplayed emotions. But the bleakness Cronenberg plies onto the landscape, whether it's a child playing by the seaside near the wreck of a fallen ship, or well-dressed socialites chatting over cocktails, weighs too heavy to be appreciated. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMay 23, 2022
Crimes of the Future . . . sometimes feels like a Cronenberg Greatest Hits, at least aesthetically; so loaded does it come with his signature themes and gooey, seemingly hand-crafted contours. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJun 6, 2022
Sadly, the new film is glum, dishearteningly so, and its narrative pulse is weak. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 6, 2022
Movies that make you come to them are, by definition, thought-provoking. But aside from concentrating and grasping at any actor, character or plot wrinkle that might let us “into” Cronenberg’s world and thought processes, there isn’t anything here that invites, entertains or even titillates. Read full review
50
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJun 3, 2022
At Crimes, you gag a lot more than you giggle. Read full review
40
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiJun 3, 2022
Crimes of the Future has an intriguing enough setup, but it doesn’t know how to tie everything together, leaving the disparate pieces of the plot adrift and turning the film into a tedious watch. Read full review
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