Watch on Deadline Warner Bros appreciates the Bong-head enthusiasm for Mickey but worries that the older art film crowd tends to be slow in discovering hot new products — especially satires ...

In Mickey 17, Bong communicates this baldness of messaging in part via head-on close-ups of heroes, villains, and antiheroes like. That may seem like an obvious dramatic approach, but Bong’s ...

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Bong Joon Ho‘s “Mickey 17,” the first of Warner Bros.‘ eclectic, pricey 2025 slate of original films from name-brand directors like Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson, isn’t getting ...

Spoiler alert! We're discussing important plot points and the ending of “Mickey 17” (in theaters now) so beware if you haven’t seen it yet. Robert Pattinson’s underdog title character in ...

It is well-nigh impossible to celebrate just one aspect of Bong Joon-ho’s adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, Mickey7 — Joon-ho apparently called the film Mickey 17 for the pleasure of ...

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though ...

Now comes Bong's new movie, Mickey 17, an outlandish, otherworldly farce that also paints in broadly satirical strokes. The movie, adapted from a novel by Edward Ashton, begins in the year 2054 ...

The master of creating layered and deep compositions tells IndieWire why "Mickey 17" required a different ... between the two families as a cat-and-mouse game of spying, set in an open-plan ...

So it’s predictably unpredictable that Mickey 17 (based on a 2022 novel by Edward Ashton) is a wacky, sci-fi black comedy with more than a passing dig at our current, geo-expansive world leaders.