Mickey 17
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 7, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 60 Critic Reviews
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100
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 6, 2025
Bong keeps things zipping along, and with such nimbleness that the movie’s heavier ideas never weigh it down. He jabs rather than pounds as he takes on targets — authoritarianism, comic-book heroics, the vanity of power — while playfully mixing moods and acting styles. Read full review
100
Total FilmDavid OpieFeb 15, 2025
Mickey 17 is funny and charming from the get-go, building out a fascinating sci-fi world from its central conceit that ends up speaking to powerful and timely concerns through humour, satire and exhilarating genre elements. Bong Joon-ho's best English movie to date and arguably Robert Pattinson's best movie ever. Read full review
100
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyFeb 15, 2025
For all the cruelty and buffoonery that might surround his hero, Bong lets us in on a revelation: what we’re really watching is a man learning that it’s OK for him to be happy. Read full review
91
Original-CinKaren GordonMar 6, 2025
Mickey 17 is a long ride with a running time of about two hours and twenty minutes, with unexpected twists and turns. It’s a lot of fun, and as previously noted, is stuffed with ideas. Read full review
91
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMar 4, 2025
The entire spectacle is so unabashedly outrageous that you cannot help but side with its many excesses. Read full review
91
IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 15, 2025
This isn’t just another great Bong Joon Ho movie about how much he hates capitalism (though it definitely is that too), it’s the first Bong Joon Ho movie about how much he loves people. Read full review
90
SlateDana StevensMar 6, 2025
Above all, Mickey 17 is remarkable for the savagery of its satire of 21st-century capitalism. Read full review
90
SlashfilmBJ ColangeloFeb 15, 2025
Mickey 17 crystalizes our horrific reality into an existential parable, one that fundamentally understands the hell of working-class existence with the allegorical precision of "The Twilight Zone." It's a story about people finding love, connection, and community under hopeless circumstances, and a rallying cry that we all deserve better conditions for existing. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMar 6, 2025
Pattinson is fully committed to the performance – performances – and his impact subtly evolves from giggling to genuinely moving. That same evolution applies to the whole of Bong’s film, which dances so close to the edge of grand folly, the effect is exhilarating. Read full review
88
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMar 13, 2025
Mickey 17 may not be my preferred mode of Bong Joon-Ho, but it’s the mode we need right now. Read full review
86
The AtlanticShirley LiMar 10, 2025
If Mickey’s life is suffocatingly bleak, Mickey 17 is anything but. Rather, it’s a wacky, satisfyingly strange romp that further reaffirms Bong Joon Ho as a singular filmmaker. Read full review
83
The PlaylistDigby HoughtonFeb 16, 2025
Bong succinctly riffs on old Hollywood to maintain his legacy of class-conscious films that challenge the status quo appealingly and refreshingly. Read full review
80
iFrancesca SteeleMar 10, 2025
Mickey 17 is a highly entertaining absurdist ride that embraces nihilism right up until the moment it tenderly skewers it. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeMar 9, 2025
While Mickey 17 isn’t in the same elevated league as Parasite, it’s a lot of fun. Read full review
80
We Got This CoveredFrancisca TinocoMar 7, 2025
A Bong Joon-ho film for the fans of 'Okja' and 'Snowpiercer'. Our generation's liveliest, most earnest director is back. Read full review
80
ABC NewsPeter TraversMar 7, 2025
Repeating his historic Oscar wins for Parasite is off the table for Bong Joon-ho. It's not happening. But together with his up-for-anything star Robert Pattinson in multiple roles, Bong turns this scattershot sci-fi space opera into a buoyant social satire that really stings Read full review
80
Screen RantAlex HarrisonMar 6, 2025
That exquisite balance of art and entertainment is exactly what makes each Bong Joon-ho film a gift to be savored – here's hoping his next one doesn't take quite so long to reach us. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicAmanda LubertoMar 5, 2025
Balanced with the over-the-top but spot-on performances by Ruffalo and Collette as the clear “rich guy turned politician that has a really really loyal fanbase” stand-in, "Mickey 17" is one of Bong’s best English-language films. Read full review
80
NMENick LevineMar 5, 2025
There’s an infectious warmth to proceedings that makes you stick with Mickey 17 (and 18) through thick and thin. This kooky curio is well worth seeking out. Read full review
80
ColliderRoss BonaimeMar 5, 2025
Bong has some cache to make whatever he wants, and he uses this freedom to build a wild and intriguing world that is both humorous and politically charged. Read full review
80
The New YorkerJustin ChangFeb 28, 2025
Even if DNA and memories could be duplicated at will, Bong suggests, individual morality would remain a glorious uncertainty principle, too human and singular to be nailed down. There’s a strange comfort in that idea, and in the movie’s sweetly hopeful finale. Read full review
80
Little White LiesHannah StrongFeb 27, 2025
Director Bong returns to familiar territory, but with no less ambition or heart than he has shown throughout his career. Read full review
80
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaFeb 19, 2025
A deeply depressing comedic experience (thanks at least in part to accidental political timing), Bong’s remix of Edward Ashton’s novel presents a Trump-like villain and no worthy heroes, resulting in a farcical sci-fi adventure whose symbolism makes up for its misshapen character drama. Read full review
80
The TimesKevin MaherFeb 17, 2025
He may have developed, produced and directed just one movie — this boisterous Robert Pattinson sci-fi comedy — but, yikes, has he packed a lot into Mickey 17. Read full review
80
Time Out Lou ThomasFeb 15, 2025
Mickey 17 may lack some of the political bite of his previous work – though there are Trumpian elements in Marshall – but it’s unquestionably tremendous fun: a big, strange spectacle that’s unlike most blockbuster cinema out there. Read full review
80
EmpireHelen O'HaraFeb 15, 2025
Like Mickey himself, it’s goofy and a little inconsistent, but it’s also funny, thoughtful and more plausible than we might like. A charming space oddity for these unusual times. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinFeb 15, 2025
Mickey 17, about a hapless clone’s misadventures on a colonising mission, is a throwback to blockbusters as the late 20th century made ’em: a $100m boisterous sci-fi satire that neither belongs to a franchise nor cares to start one, but instead jams as many eggs as it can into one increasingly precarious basket. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreFeb 15, 2025
Bong specializes in crushing capitalist dystopias, whether he’s skewering present-day South Korea or an even more stratified post-apocalyptic society, and the near-future in which Mickey 17 takes place is perverse enough for each detail to constitute its own dark joke. Read full review
77
TheWrapBen CrollFeb 15, 2025
The film, in short, exhilarates and exhausts in equal measure, abundant in ambition and arduous, at points, in execution. And after six long years of waiting, one can hardly fault a bit of excess generosity – even if the feast leaves you stuffed if not quite satisfied. Read full review
75
Washington PostTy BurrMar 6, 2025
It’s [Bong Joon Ho's] first film since “Parasite” became the first foreign language movie to win a best picture Oscar in 2020, and while it’s not his best work, “Mickey 17” is still a great deal of acrid fun. In the bargain, you get three great performances from two very good actors. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittMar 6, 2025
If this is Bong’s take on a Hollywood space blockbuster, it’s better than most. “Mickey 17,” led by a quirky underdog, offers a timely escape where empathy can overcome cruelty on the other side of the galaxy. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerMar 6, 2025
Messy as it is, the filmmaking so energetically delivers its acidic pessimism that it’s rarely unpleasant. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonMar 5, 2025
Bong has an original vision and a distinctive style that’s not to be dismissed. He’s our era’s Terry Gilliam, where hope pushes through the tragicomic nihilism. Read full review
75
ObserverEmily ZemlerMar 5, 2025
Comparisons aside, Mickey 17 is a remarkably solid and compelling sci-fi flick, with an absurdist flair that can only come from a filmmaker like Joon Ho. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 5, 2025
It’s a variation on the teletransportation paradox as filtered through a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon, with some B-movie creatures thrown in for good measure. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenMar 5, 2025
Bong covered many of the same aspects of “Mickey” in his 2013 sci-fi epic “Snowpiercer,” a more streamlined and hard-bitten work of social commentary with the have-nots battling the heedless rich. ”Mickey 17” is less focused and not quite as satisfying a production as that earlier movie. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonMar 5, 2025
Though Mickey 17 can feel like a mixtape of Bong’s greatest hits, it may actually be his most refined and articulate anti-capitalistic critique to date. Read full review
75
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerMar 4, 2025
Mickey 17 is at its best when director Bong really leans into exploring the dirty details of blue-collar space exploration. Read full review
75
Paste MagazineKatarina DocalovichFeb 19, 2025
Mickey 17 is in no way a revolutionary follow up to something like 2019’s Parasite, but it’s an entertaining, well crafted ride. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonMar 7, 2025
As semi-inessential as Mickey 17 feels in Bong’s canon, I’m at peace that he keeps asking how to give everyone’s life value. He’ll keep repeating the question until we come up with an answer. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 15, 2025
Mickey 17 sometimes wobbles balancing its different tones. But what holds Bong’s eighth feature together is his palpable rage at humanity’s cruelty mixed with his compassion for a protagonist who cannot die – and, therefore, cannot truly live. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 6, 2025
If the movies are going to talk about labor, human rights, cruel “leaders” and love in the world Gen Z is growing up in, the raw deal facing Mickeys 1-17 is a good place to do it. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 6, 2025
Even a first-rate director can get a little lost in the tone management and narrative streamlining process. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMar 5, 2025
What’s frustrating is that I totally agree with everything Bong is saying, I just wish he were saying it with a touch more finesse. Maybe they can do some fine-tuning in the lab for next time. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearMar 6, 2025
Bong is a consummate cinematic craftsman, virtually incapable of creating a dull frame. What’s happening within those impeccable compositions, however, feels like its suffering from an overabundance of business and undernourished storytelling. Read full review
60
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMar 5, 2025
No matter a committed performance (two, actually) from Robert Pattinson, it’s an original that plays like a rehash—and an underwhelmingly unfunny one at that. Read full review
60
LooperAlistair RyderFeb 15, 2025
It's the weakest of his three English language efforts due to it feeling like he's watering down his satirical approach, spoon-feeding exposition to his audience alongside each joke under the worry that the parody might go over their heads. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 15, 2025
Bong’s adventurous new film barrels forward with chaotic plotting, as is often the case with the director’s work. But thematic coherence remains frustratingly elusive. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 15, 2025
It’s eerie, startling — and yet also unexpectedly benign. Read full review
50
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMar 8, 2025
On the whole, though, Mickey 17 tests our patience. While the dispensable clones premise is intriguing, and opens a door to the kind of socioeconomic commentary so signature to Bong, the film quickly grows distracted by other matters entirely. Read full review
50
Film ThreatAlan NgMar 7, 2025
While Bong Joon Ho delivers his signature visual flair and Robert Pattinson fully commits to the existential dread of his endlessly disposable character, the film struggles to keep its high-concept ideas fresh past the first act. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 7, 2025
A mostly failed attempt to merge sci-fi with satire, Mickey 17 suffers from a fragmented narrative and a scenery-chewing performance from Mark Ruffalo that belongs in a different movie (perhaps Poor Things). Read full review
50
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiMar 5, 2025
It’s far from terrible and a pleasure to look at. But, perhaps inevitably, after such a raging success, Bong’s latest movie is a disappointment. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonMar 5, 2025
While the visuals are often stunning, and the first hour has a loose, raunchy charm, “Mickey 17″ wears out its welcome long before its overlong, nearly t2½-hour runtime ends. Read full review
50
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckMar 5, 2025
In an extremely physical, committed, even exhausting performance, Pattinson takes what could have been an unwieldy mess and makes it much less, well, expendable. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 15, 2025
Though it earns points for sheer oddity (and the nearly monochromatic, future-noir look established by DP Darius Khondji and production designer Fiona Crombie), too much of “Mickey 17” turns out to be sloppy, shrill and preachy — ironically, the same things that make Mark Ruffalo’s deliberately Trump-styled villain so grating in this movie. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekMar 10, 2025
The time may feel right for a wry dystopian sci-fi adventure-comedy. But as satires go, this one is more mild than habanero. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMar 6, 2025
Mickey 17, adapted from a novel by Edward Ashton, feels like a rickety compromise bolted together from incompatible parts. Read full review
40
BBCHugh MontgomeryFeb 15, 2025
Again and again lines and scenes strain for comic effect, but fail to deliver the goods. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithMar 7, 2025
Even an audience expecting very little would be underwhelmed by this meandering, snowy dud, which, for all its extravagance, at a reported $120 million budget, combines insipid messaging with witless comedy and a weak plot that gets resolved in a silly way. Read full review
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