Mickey 17 (15)

★★★★ The South Korean director Bong Joon-ho packs everything but the kitchen sink into his follow-up to the Oscar darling Parasite. ~ The Times.

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From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, “Mickey 17.”

The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, “Mickey 17” stars Robert Pattinson (“The Batman,” “Tenet”), Naomi Ackie (“Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker”), Steven Yeun (“Nope”), with Academy Award nominees Toni Collette (“Hereditary”), and Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”).

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★★★★★ Bong Joon Ho's best English movie to date and arguably Robert Pattinson's best movie ever. ~ Total Film.

★★★★ The Korean auteur's third English-language feature is undoubtedly the weirdest film this winter. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ An absurdist, anti-capitalist, Trump-mocking masterpiece; Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar winner behind ‘Parasite’, somehow convinced Warner Bros to finance a costly sci-fi epic about the plight of the working class – and led by an actor doing one of his trademark silly voices. ~ The Independent.

★★★★ Robert Pattinson is a hangdog delight in this enjoyably mad sci-fi confection which satirises the bleak religification of 21st-century corporate identity. ~ Telegraph.

★★★★ Gross and heartwarming in equal measure. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ Bong’s peerless storytelling instincts are on display, deftly navigating a tangled nonlinear structure and making light work of the picture’s hefty two-and-a-quarter-hour running time. ~ The Observer.

★★★★ Like Mickey himself, it’s goofy and a little inconsistent, but it’s also funny, thoughtful and more plausible than we might like. A charming space oddity for these unusual times. ~ Empire.

★★★★ A highly entertaining absurdist ride. ~ The i.

★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★ ~ NME.