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  Review by Steve G 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 21

  Turned this off after 45 minutes to do something more enjoyable, like sit in a bathtub full of hard boiled shit.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 28

  Gosh, where do I begin.... Cosmopolis is a mess. A big, beautiful and very intelligent mess. It is a very difficult film to come to terms with, especially because Cronenberg seems intent on the viewer not liking it at all. He keeps you at a distance and gives you a cold and analytical commentary on the state of the world as we know it. And it works. Well, sort of.

  Let's start with the obvious. Pattinson is fine. He has talent and proves himself to be a very capable actor. The character he plays is the owner of a big company that deals with the world of finance. What they do exactly is never clear, but they are definitely big…

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  Review by BRAT ★★★ 5

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  a young billionaire with a razor-sharp jawline played by robert pattinson broods in a luxury vehicle as his faithful butler drives him across the crime-stricken city. cronenberg's prophetic interpretation of The Batman tries to say so much but ends up saying almost nothing at all. and honestly? i can relate to that ..

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  dammit, another ROBsessed essential! he's got slicked back hair and a fitted suit that gets steadily more and more disheveled as he spirals harder and harder -- hot! there's this moment in the beginning where he takes a girl out to breakfast and says, "i'm hungry for something thick and chewy," to her with such clear-cut precision,…

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  Review by aleph beth null ★★★★★ 7

  — how old are you?
  — 41.
  — a prime number.
  — but not an interesting one.

  but n² + n + 41 is the most fecund prime-generating quadratic of its magnitude, and this is the most fecund film of its generation.

  (‘i am your chief of theory.’)

  it’s also my favourite batman movie.

  ‘you wanted me to be a helpless robot soldier, and all i could be was helpless.’

  with every rewatch it gets closer to being my favourite of all.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★ 3

  he really wanted that haircut

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★ 2

  There is no greater, shall we say, diagnosis, of the world today in movies than this.

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  Review by Will Sloan ★★★

  It's good, I just hate watching it.

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★

  21st century living - the whole of the world abstracted into singular screens and sounds, all while driving in a single line.

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  Review by Austin Gorski ★★ 7

  An exhausting dialogue-driven film that's not only pretentious, but ends up going absolutely nowhere. Not for me, apparently. Pattinson was pretty good though.

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  Review by Josiah Morgan ★★★★★ 13

  One of the only truly discomforting films I've ever seen, Cosmopolis forces itself upon you in such a way as to assert not only narrative but experiential dominance: this film is terrifying because it drops us into a world which is complete, sane, a world in which everything makes sense - but only because things are meaningless.

  The inference of many that not only is Cosmopolis one of Cronenberg's weakest but also one of the weakest films ever made is absurd to me because every individual 'offputting' facet of the film (the unsubtle greenscreen, Pattinson's bizarre anti-realist performance) so clearly and directly contributes to the overall vision of the piece that there is no doubting the films' manifesto (for lack…

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  Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★★ 1

  Space and time corrode while a man suicidally searches the meaning of his prostate and Yuan in a digitopia.

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  Review by Edgar Cochran ★★★★ 16

  An overwherlming demystification of the irrationality of man's political and economic systems in the side of the world that is inherently capitalist. Cronenberg's heavenly writing is seriously misunderstood and confused with an empty philosophical discourse; the fantasy here relies in the stale illusion of rationalizing self-destructive tendencies, both material and spiritual, in order to justify a toxic way of life.

  "Life is too contemporary."

  Everything in this film doesn't seem to happen for a reason, and it actually does. The auteur's antythesis to the contemporary Holy Motors (2012) places an individual engulfed in the business of the sadistically precise, the measurement of neoliberal and exploitative systems in order to determine patterns that emerge with nature. The man wants a haircut…