Crimes of the Future
(2022)
Overview
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
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the_blueeyes
July 24, 2022
Nonsensical incoherent movie that was hard to watch, and i turned it off after 30 min.
It clearly written with a good amount of shock value, but the only shock i got was my finger to press "off" button.
Cronenberg has made some good body horror in the past, but this was just rubbish.
CinemaSerf
⭐ 6/10September 19, 2022
Whilst certainly nowhere near his best, this is still quite an intriguing drama from David Cronenberg. It all centres around "Saul Tenser" (Viggo Mortensen) who uses his own body to grow (or "cook") extra organs which he and his assistant "Caprice" (Léa Seydoux) extract as part of rather gruesome, but popular, theatrical performances. Meantime, "Dotrice" (Scott Speedman) is reeling from the suffocation of his young plastic-eating son (by his own … read the rest.
Manuel São Bento
⭐ 7/10October 16, 2022
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/opinion-pieces/what-do-both-dont-worry-darling-and-crimes-of-the-future-have-in-common
"Personally, I believe that cinematic narratives with multiple plot points and questions related to the world itself are too often confused and envisioned as character studies driven by a single protagonist.
Both Olivia Wilde and David Cronenberg complete their movies when the main character fulfills t…
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r96sk
⭐ 7/10February 20, 2023
Not the most enjoyable of watches, it meanders a bit, though <em>'Crimes of the Future'</em> is most certainly interesting throughout.
I tend to find films like this a little hit-and-miss, as I personally find the constant reaching for shock value or just simple weirdness a bit too forced. And this film does that a few times, but to be fair as the run time was ticking by I could definitely feel myself becoming more and more intrigued by events…
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$27,000,000
Revenue
$4,551,565