David Cronenberg’s sci-fi horror exploration of gaming, virtual reality and identity bears more weight now than it did at the time of its original release.
eXistenZ (1999): Cronenberg’s (Prophetic) Exploration of Gaming, Virtual Reality and Identity, Starring Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holmand
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Blue Caftan, The: Moroccan Writer-Director Maryam Touzani’s Sensitive Portrait if a Menage a Trois (Cannes Fest 2022, Certain Regard)–What You Need to Know
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Moroccan writer-director Maryam Touzani’s second feature concerns a triangle of an artisanal tailor, his dying wife and his male apprentice (lover)
Triangle of Sadness: Cannes Film Fest 2022–Ruben Ostland’s Top Winner–What You Need to Know
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Told in three parts, with chapter headings, the film tilts at the world of privilege, and at the tradeable, shallow values that act as an entree to this milieu.
Fast Company (1979): Cronenberg’s B-Movie about the World of Drag Racing
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Cronenberg’s obsession with vehicles is well-known, but this early B-movie about the world of drag racing remains an outlier in his oeuvre.
Maps to the Stars (2014): Cronenberg’s Obvious Melodrmatic Satire of Hollywood (Nepotism, Scientology, Rich Dysfunctional Families)
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Cronenberg’s Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars is severely flawed, as Bruce Wagner’s script takes too many obvious swings at Tinseltown, railing against nepotism, Scientology, sequels and misbehavior of the rich and famous.





