

Crimes of the Future
Surgery is the new sex.
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $27M
- Box office
- $4.6M
- Language
- English
- human evolution
- detective
- dystopia
- murder
- performance art
- transhumanism
- evolution
- surgery
- shipyard
- body horror
- organ trafficking
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Canada, Greece, United Kingdom, France, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)R3 Jun 2022
- TheatricalR10 Jun 2022
- Digital / OTTR21 Jun 2022
- PhysicalR9 Aug 2022
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical189 Sept 2022
- Physical18DVD9 Jan 2023
- Physical18Second Sight 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray / Blu-ray11 Sept 2023
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+18 Aug 2022
CanadaCA
- Theatrical18A3 Jun 2022
BrazilBR
- PremiereSão Paulo11 Jul 2022
- Theatrical1814 Jul 2022
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical158 Dec 2022
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-167 Oct 2022
FranceFR
- Premiere12Cannes Film Festival23 May 2022
- Theatrical1225 May 2022
- Digital / OTTVOD26 Sept 2022
- PhysicalDVD / Blu-ray26 Sept 2022
- Digital / OTT12MyCanal22 May 2023
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1610 Nov 2022
- Physical16Blu-ray24 Mar 2023
GreeceGR
- TheatricalK1814 Sept 2022
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTT185 Jan 2023
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT189 Sept 2022
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Crimes of the Future was released on 25 May 2022.
Audience reviews
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the_blueeyes
7/24/2022
Nonsensical incoherent movie that was hard to watch, and i turned it off after 30 min. It clearly written with a good amount of shock value, but the only shock i got was my finger to press "off" button. Cronenberg has made some good body horror in the past, but this was just rubbish.
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
9/19/2022
Whilst certainly nowhere near his best, this is still quite an intriguing drama from David Cronenberg. It all centres around "Saul Tenser" (Viggo Mortensen) who uses his own body to grow (or "cook") extra organs which he and his assistant "Caprice" (Léa Seydoux) extract as part of rather gruesome, but popular, theatrical performances. Meantime, "Dotrice" (Scott Speedman) is reeling from the suffocation of his young p…
- M7/10
Manuel São Bento
10/16/2022
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/opinion-pieces/what-do-both-dont-worry-darling-and-crimes-of-the-future-have-in-common "Personally, I believe that cinematic narratives with multiple plot points and questions related to the world itself are too often confused and envisioned as character studies driven by a single protagonist. Both Olivia Wilde and David Cronenberg complete their movies when…
- R7/10
r96sk
2/20/2023
Not the most enjoyable of watches, it meanders a bit, though <em>'Crimes of the Future'</em> is most certainly interesting throughout. I tend to find films like this a little hit-and-miss, as I personally find the constant reaching for shock value or just simple weirdness a bit too forced. And this film does that a few times, but to be fair as the run time was ticking by I could definitely feel myself becoming mor…
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