Cosmopolis: Press reviews

'A part hypnotic, part profound, part send-up meditation on our financially imploding time.'

At Cannes: 'its portrayal of civilisation as an impossibly intricate, crucially flawed equation, about to buckle and snap, is sinuously compelling.'

'This is a surpassingly odd film that some will reject outright, but I was totally won over.'

'This is riveting cinema, as fine as anything Cronenberg has done'

At Cannes: 'Applying his icy intelligence to Don DeLillo's prescient 2003 novel, David Cronenberg turns a young Wall Street titan's daylong limo ride into a coolly corrosive allegory for an era of technological dependency, financial failure and pervasive paranoia, though the dialogue-heavy manner in which it engages these concepts remains distancing and somewhat impenetrable by design'

'Yet here's something truly weird: as soon as I was back in the real world, Cosmopolis knocked me sideways.'

'the movie is dreamy and funny in an off-centered way'

'There's not much more a master director could have done, except challenge the wisdom of his book purchase.'

'a weird, heady and entrancing portrait of individual alienation in a super-rich, corporate world where money, sex, love, happiness and death are rapidly losing all meaning.'

At Cannes: 'here's a consistent air of charged, end-of-days menace running through the film, which Cronenberg handles with an unbroken sense of precision and confidence.'

'Pattinson's most daring performance yet. Which, true, isn't saying much. But if he keeps raising his game in bold, weird movies like this, a new dawn could be breaking for R-Pattz.'

At Cannes: 'an anemic, dramatically flat viewing experience'

At Cannes: 'stilted, self-important and dismayingly shallow'

'It's a movie about danger in which nothing is credibly at stake.'

'distracted'

'David Cronenberg has made some fantastic films – Eastern Promises, The Fly – but this isn't one of them.'

'Devoid of meaning, dialogue that rings true or plausible drama, this film is the antithesis of entertainment.'

'Cronenberg, it astonishingly seems after all those years of blithe sci-fi prolixity (Rabid, Videodrome), cannot make films.'

At Cannes: 'Lifeless, stagey and lacking a palpable subversive pulse despite the ready opportunities offered by the material'