To the extent that Cosmopolis functions as a super-literal conceptual exercise, it's simultaneously irritating and fascinating.
Cosmopolis
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Canada, France, Portugal · 2012
Rated R · 1h 49m
Director David Cronenberg
Starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Gadon
Genre Drama
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While riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a traffic gridlock, a series of unfortunate events causes a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life to crumble, prompting him to spiral down a path of self-destruction and desperation.
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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.
An eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, Cosmopolis probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves.
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.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
The film comes off as an elaborately didactic and overheated lecture.
Vapid, claustrophobic drama.
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.
The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy
After a strong run of films during the past decade, David Cronenberg blows a tire with Cosmopolis.
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