Crimes Of The Future (2022) Film Review

Perhaps no-one deserves the moniker of post Kubrick auteur than
Canadian director, David Cronenberg, who has plowed his own
singular vision, without bending to any outside will, for
decades. His entire body of work is surprisingly vast and full
and his latest plays like a greatest hits riff on it all - as
denoted by reusing a film title and re-writing a story he never
completed, including his first return to the body horror that
made him this century. Though not quite the equal of the films I
recognized here - the surgery = sex of Dead Ringers, the body
mangling of Crash, the dystopian underground secret world of
Videodrome, even Eastern Promises gets a nod - it's still among
the best and most interesting films this year. Long time
compatriot Viggo Mortensen cuts a bizarrely compelling Hunchback
of Notre Dame via Aragorn character and two actresses I've often
criticised shine. Lea Seydoux has never been better and it what
universe is it even possible that Kristen Stewart 'lights up' the
screen?!