The cold, the mechanical, the projected — all of these traits become lively embodied and erotic.

| Jun 5, 2024

While Videodrome is in some ways a very heady, theme-driven film, it’s also just a thrilling experience.

| Oct 20, 2023

Always on the hunt for something newer and edgier, Max comes across a Malaysian broadcast of live executions, which Max immediately wants to begin airing on his network.

| Jul 18, 2023

A sleazy slice of early Cronenberg.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 7, 2023

Classic Cronenberg: filled with body horror, philosophy and delicately balancing Canadian inferiority complexes and American media saturation. More Debbie Harry because she's outstanding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2023

"Videodrome" has a lot to say about the bad romance between eye and brain, mind and body. Cronenberg has taken his childhood fear and built a world of conspiracy around it.

| Original Score: A | Dec 1, 2022

Cronenberg uses the fears of television to manipulate an audience as a starting off point for a conspiracy thriller curled around his favorite topics: the response of the body human to technology, and disease and mutation as evolution.

| Oct 29, 2022

Cronenberg's eye gives full rein to the unusual narrative concept and warped reality of the situation.

| Aug 1, 2022

Films like this rouse powerful reactions to their extreme metaphors and violent imagery; but then, there has never been a film quite like this one.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2022

...a decidedly oddball premise that's employed to initially intriguing yet ultimately interminable effect...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 18, 2020

Everything in 'Videodrome' calls for the viewer seduced by the film's proposal to irretrievably surrender to its overwhelming visual personality. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 24, 2020

"Videodrome" is a radical look at the deep-web, YouTube, screen addiction and the increasingly violent state of movies at a time when such subjects weren't up for cultural debate.

| Jun 11, 2019

Videodrome shows us a world of our making should we continue a dangerous relationship with media, its various mediums, the images it puts into our brains.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2019

It's hard to overstate how premonitory David Cronenberg's masterpiece turned out to be.

| Mar 4, 2019

...envisions a coming world of authoritarian entertainment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 30, 2018

Simultaneously stupefying and boring, Videodrome is too extreme a blunder to survive exposure to a justifiably disillusioned horror-movie public.

| Aug 4, 2015

Here, Cronenberg is a provocateur only to a point - boldly striding past boundaries of comfort but getting the heebie-jeebies upon approaching true profundity. But he wasn't too far from figuring out which incisions could cut the deepest.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2013

...an intriguing, deeply interesting film that over the course of almost three decades has acquired a prescient quality, but it's also schlock; a kind of cyberpunk rewrite of Network that indulges Cronenberg's taste for venereal horror.

| Original Score: 87/100 | Jan 16, 2011

There's little denying that Cronenberg was way ahead of his time with much of Videodrome.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 9, 2011

... Videodrome is as contemporary and relevant as ever.

| Oct 30, 2008