David Cronenberg

The Shrouds – first-look review

By David Jenkins

David Cronenberg’s melancholy exploration of how we retain our connection with the dead makes for one of his most beautiful love stories.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: the full line-up

By David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos, David Cronenberg and Francis Ford Coppola roll out for France's premiere film jamboree.

The 30 best films of 2022

By Hannah Strong

The LWLies team count down their favourite cinematic experiences from an embarrassment of movie riches.

In Praise of Eastern Promises

By Rose Dymock

As David Cronenberg's gangster flick turns 15, it remains a refreshing depiction of London's underbelly.

Crimes of the Future

By Sarah Cleary

Extreme surgery replaces sex in body horror maestro David Cronenberg’s ambitious blends of science fiction and film noir.

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Crimes of the Future – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

David Cronenberg’s return to filmmaking can’t quite deliver on its promise that surgery is the new sex.

The films of David Cronenberg – ranked

By Little White Lies

With a new feature film out in the world, we celebrate the corporeal classics of the Canadian body horror maestro.

David Cronenberg’s comeback continues as he sets up a deathly drama

By Charles Bramesco

Vincent Cassel will star in The Shrouds as an inventor who devises a method of speaking to the dead.

Claire Denis and David Cronenberg headline the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

By David Jenkins

This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.

David Cronenberg is gearing up for his first new film in nearly a decade

By Charles Bramesco

Crimes of the Future will begin filming in Greece soon, and looks set to star the Viggo Mortensen.

The mind-blowing legacy of David Cronenberg’s Scanners

By David Robb

The director’s 1981 body horror feels increasingly relevant in our age of technological dependency.

The 100 Best Films of the 2000s: 75-51

By Little White Lies

Our countdown of the finest cinematic offerings from 2000 to 2009 continues. How many have you seen?

Gemini Man, duplicates and crises of masculinity

By Kambole Campbell

Ang Lee’s sci-fi thriller explores male intimacy and dependency through a time-honoured trope.

How David Cronenberg’s Crash helped me overcome my fear of driving

By Brian Quinn

Following a traumatic childhood accident, this psychosexual oddity empowered me to take back control.

Fear of the feminine in David Cronenberg’s The Brood

By Millicent Thomas

In the director’s 1979 body horror, maternal functions are a source of repulsion and terror.

The psychosexual pleasures of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers

By Adam Scovell

The director’s tale of twin gynecologists is a gory study of the relationship between the physical and mental self.

1980s cinema and the disturbing side of suburbia

By James Morton

With the likes of Blue Velvet and Society, the decade saw the American Dream turn into something grotesque.

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