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?!