David Cronenberg
Movie Review: The Shrouds
4 stars out of 5In 2022, I gave a positive review to Crimes of the Future, written and directed by the then-79-year-old David Cronenberg. Showing that the apple doesn’t fall far from the fucked-up tree, I gave an equally positive review to 43-year-old son Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool. Ah, but the senior Croney wasn’t quite […]
Movie Review: Infinity Pool
4 stars out of 5I can imagine Mike White handing this in as a stand-alone episode of White Lotus and getting immediately fired and banned by HBO. In Infinity Pool, writer/director Brandon Cronenberg gives us his own version of an existentially bored couple at a tropic resort, but because of that last name, you can […]
Movie Review: Crimes of the Future
4 stars out of 5Be careful what you wish for, they say. The last time I reviewed a David Cronenberg movie, A Dangerous Method over a decade ago, I said that the talky film made me “long for the twistedness of Dead Ringers, etc.” At age 79, my crony Croney is back with maybe his […]
Movie Review: A Dangerous Method
3.5 stars out of 5 I think about Keira nightly. What? Oh, sorry, it’s spelled Knightley. I’ve been an admirer since the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, but I guess I’ve only seen her in that, Bend It Like Beckham, Pride & Prejudice, and now this. And maybe she’s not the greatest actress of […]
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