Synopsis
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
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Cast
- Robert PattinsonEric Packer
- Juliette BinocheDidi Fancher
- Sarah GadonElise Shifrin
- Mathieu AmalricAndré Petrescu
- Jay BaruchelShiner
- Kevin DurandTorval
- K'NaanBrutha Fez
- Emily HampshireJane Melman
- Samantha MortonVija Kinsky
- Paul GiamattiBenno Levin
Recommendations
- 100
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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. - 88
Slant Magazine
Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg's film plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome. - 80
Time Out
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. - 80
Variety
An eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, Cosmopolis probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
It's Cronenberg's most willfully weird movie since "Spider," and it should prove a tough sell despite Pattinson's ample star power. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
The film comes off as an elaborately didactic and overheated lecture. - 50
Village Voice
To the extent that Cosmopolis functions as a super-literal conceptual exercise, it's simultaneously irritating and fascinating.
