This pseudo-sequel to 'Videodrome' is arguably better than its predecessor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2024

Cronenberg's meditation on gaming and simulation has a tinge of Y2K hysteria, but its philosophical questioning of the impact on our humanity is very welcome and low-fi compared to other films of the time. Also: Jennifer Jason Leigh devours this role.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2024

Bizarrely prescient and dripping in paranoia, this is Cronenberg’s last great effort into speculative fiction.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 3, 2024

...this 1999 David Cronenberg masterpiece is one of the unheralded sci-fi classics of that decade.

| Sep 10, 2021

Though the rigidly wonky lead performances detract from the overall impact of eXistenZ, the feature remains a fun sci-fi romp into the inquisition of reality that hinges on signature Cronenberg style.

| Nov 17, 2020

[I] thought it was good for what it was but it doesn't really beat other films I've seen like it.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 21, 2020

As a multi-layered cautionary tale and satire, perhaps it's brilliant; but by the end, it ultimately seems like a lot of nonsense.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 11, 2020

What we have here is a witty sci-fi teaser built around the coming wave of deep immersion gaming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2020

It's striking that eXistenZ, a send-up of computer games that parodied The Matrix avant la lettre, and one of the great underappreciated movies of the late 1990s, yields the richest trove of relics.

| Mar 8, 2019

Cronenberg wraps the tale in layers of mystery, never allowing the audience to confidentially comprehend precisely what is happening.

| Nov 8, 2018

eXistenZ - both Allegra's latest beta release and David Cronenberg's dizzying B-movie - makes the different textures of game, film and life increasingly difficult to tease apart.

| May 21, 2018

eXistenZ is a hugely enjoyable SF thriller with a playfulness to its narrative that keeps you well and truly baffled as too where you are.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 15, 2018

The world Cronenberg creates is his least immersive to date, but more interesting is his critique of what games and other forms of media do to our lives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2018

This is a David Cronenberg movie, so everything looks vaguely like a vagina.

| Mar 17, 2018

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

It's a disturbing, disorienting sensation -- puzzles within puzzles, games within games -- that continues right up to the last shot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Experienced gamers should find much to savor through the films unique assessments on the nature of reality.

| Original Score: B | Oct 25, 2007

[Cronenberg is] a laughing existentialist here, a philosopher who sees the comedy in disorientation.

| Original Score: A | Jul 30, 2007

I just don't happen to like puzzle films of any kind, but I must credit Mr. Cronenberg with more intellectual depth than most of his fellow pessimistic movie pranksters.

| Apr 27, 2007

Dark, delirious fun.

| Jan 26, 2006