Cosmopolis 2012

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: [A] vapid, claustrophobic drama... Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A parade of hollow didactic encounters. Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: Cosmopolis is almost certainly some kind of masterpiece, but I have to admit it's probably not for everyone. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Mr. Cronenberg's direction throughout "Cosmopolis" is impeccable, both inside the limo and out. Read more

John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: Conventional it is not. Engrossing it is. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: "Cosmopolis," because of its allegiance to the book's mannered, offbeat language, feels like it never wakes up. Read more

Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: The more abstract and overtly stylized Cosmopolis is, the more it thrills. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Cronenberg turns a difficult, sometimes frustrating book into a difficult, sometimes frustrating movie, though one with many of the same rewards as its source material ... Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: Poor Pattinson does the best he can. He's not terrible. But he's definitely out of his element, if not beyond his depth, an altar boy in a bishop's robes. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The story seems to cleave into cerebral disquisition and primal sex. Read more

Jordan Hoffman, Film.com: "Cosmopolis" is Cronenberg's best film since "eXistenZ" and further viewings may place it higher than that. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: An airless and inert expression of a capitalist kingpin's odyssey across a threatening New York City. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: DeLillo's brilliant analysis of the destructive power of wealth that took such seductive hold on page has a tough time gaining traction on screen. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The movie isn't for everyone. But if it grabs you, prepare for it to stick in your head for days. Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: Despite the constrictions, Cronenberg keeps the space handsome and active. For long stretches, Cosmopolis is dreamy and funny, in an off-centered way. Read more

Scott Tobias, NPR: It's like a dream that engages and drifts, until waking with a start in a finale that's as bracing and raw as the rest of the film is coolly distant. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Frustratingly bland work from lead Robert Pattinson results in an awfully watery stew. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: David Cronenberg meets Don DeLillo at last, and it's as if all the angels of heaven have come together. And said nothing. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Sometimes, even a little gratuitous nudity can't save a movie. This is one of those occasions. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A flawlessly directed film about enigmatic people who speak in morose epigrams about vague universal principles they show no sign of understanding. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: If you can get past the psychological density of the source material and the tabloid noise around the star , this mesmerizing mind-bender ought to prove that Robert Pattinson really can act and Director David Cronenberg never runs from a challenge. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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 more

Dana Stevens, Slate: 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 more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The film is all too faithful to its un-cinematic source. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 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 more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A carefully prepared freeze-dried entree, sans jus, that fails to stir the appetite. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: I never imagined describing a film as a cross between The Bonfire of the Vanities and Last Year at Marienbad... Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Threatens to soar and to be important, but it only offers flashes of lucidity. That said, there's a consistent air of charged, end-of-days menace running through the film, which Cronenberg handles with an unbroken sense of precision and confidence. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: A sensual, propulsive thriller, the apocalypse as viewed from lush interiors and a hermetic remove. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: What we can't argue is that Cosmopolis is the work of a master filmmaker, one who is determined to have us think about the ideas packed into the trunk of this limo bound for the furthest corners of the psyche. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: It's all vapid snark, didactic sermonizing and bewildering shock tactics. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: An eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, Cosmopolis probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves. Read more

Karina Longworth, Village Voice: We're supposed to be feeling . . . something. That we don't might be Cronenberg's own endgame. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: It is one of the director's better movies of recent years, even if it is occasionally maddening. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: It feels like each and every moment bursts forth with urgent dialogue, and yet what does anyone actually say? Read more