Cosmopolis

The Independent“Heavy on the talkiness” The mystery of it is why he should want to make such a cold and bloodless film when most of his best work – Dead Ringers, A History of Violence, The Dead Zone – depends so markedly on engagement with the human and the vulnerable...

Film4“A brilliant performance from Robert Pattinson...” Cronenberg’s eerily pitch-perfect realisation of Don DeLillo’s brilliant novel plugs us deep into Eric Packer’s shallow existence. It gives Don DeLillo's novel a screen life that probably only David Cronenberg could have delivered...

Little White Lies“Pattinson is magnetic...” Cronenberg’s superb latest is an existential road movie for our financially and morally bankrupt times. The way in which Cronenberg photographs the talk, too, is subtle, elegant and intense without ever drawing undue attention to itself...

Empire“Icy-calm, intellectual and bleakly funny...” Frustrations but not catastrophes, and final words must go to Robert Pattinson’s terrific performance. A mesmerising, magnetic anti-presence...

Total Film “Might just be the weirdest movie of the year...” Precise, clinical visuals put Pattinson under intense scrutiny. But he chews through the challenge of Cronenberg’s immensely literate script – lifted hand over hand from the prose in Don DeLillo’s dense, stylish novel – with real confidence..

Time Out“A weird, heady and entrancing portrait of individual alienation...” 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...

The Telegraph“A sensational central performance from Robert Pattinson...” Its portrayal of civilisation as an impossibly intricate, crucially flawed equation, about to buckle and snap, is sinuously compelling...

Guardian“Stilted, self-important and dismayingly shallow...” You go to a Cronenberg movie for something exciting, exotic, daring and precise: really, none of those things is present in this agonisingly self-conscious and meagre piece of work...