Above all, it is a galactic leap from any other film you’re likely to see this week. Or this month. Perhaps this whole year.
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01/01/00
eXistenZ (1999)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:4
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Gooey, slimy, grotesque fun.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A renowned international virtual reality game designer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), creator of a new interactive game called eXistenZ, becomes the target of an assassination plot by a group of religious... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm
Director: David Cronenberg
Reviews for eXistenZ
1 - 4 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticJennifer Jason Leigh is an ideal Cronenberg heroine, projecting a personality that is smart, wary and capable of obsessiveness.
02/14/01
Top Critic[It's] meant to have a whiff of the philosophical, even if its intellectual ambition seems mostly limited to spelling affectations.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe Matrix is mainstream sci-fi, but eXistenZ, written by Cronenberg, is much stranger; it creates a world where organic and inorganic are not separate states, but kind of chummy.
01/01/00
Top Critic1 - 4 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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