The Playlist by Simon Abrams

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.

Slant Magazine

Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg's film plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome.

Slant Magazine by Bud Wilkins

Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg's film plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome.

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.

Variety by Justin Chang

An eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, Cosmopolis probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

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.

Boxoffice Magazine by David Ehrlich

It's Cronenberg's most willfully weird movie since "Spider," and it should prove a tough sell despite Pattinson's ample star power.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

A cold, funny number about the erotics of money and the seduction of death.

Wall Street Journal by John Anderson

Conventional it is not. Engrossing it is.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

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.

Movieline by Alison Willmore

Pattinson does a quietly marvelous thing in finding vulnerability in Eric without making it seem like softness.

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

Since 2005's "A History of Violence," Cronenberg has ventured beyond the grotesque allegorical interests of his earlier movies, a shift that has led some longtime fans to assume he has softened up. As an enjoyably peculiar anti-capitalist indictment, Cosmopolis proves otherwise.

Village Voice

To the extent that Cosmopolis functions as a super-literal conceptual exercise, it's simultaneously irritating and fascinating.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

The film comes off as an elaborately didactic and overheated lecture.

The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy

After a strong run of films during the past decade, David Cronenberg blows a tire with Cosmopolis.

Time by Richard Corliss

Vapid, claustrophobic drama.