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Cinema

Cartoonish, sub-Armando Iannucci comic caper: Mickey 17 reviewed

8 March 2025

9:00 AM

8 March 2025

9:00 AM

Mickey 17

15, Nationwide

Mickey 17 is the latest film from the South Korean writer-director Bong Joon-ho, who won an Oscar for Parasite and made Snowpiercer and Okja. It’s a dystopian sci-fi satire starring Robert Pattinson twice over (all will be explained) but while it initially kicks some decent ideas around, it eventually descends into a cartoonish, sub-Armando Iannucci comic caper with, as far as I could ascertain, nothing fresh to say.

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