That such sentimentality can come across in a story as disturbing as Mickey’s may sound illogical. But, as Bong told my colleague David Sims in 2019, “I always feel it’s more fun when I try ...

Ashton’s story focuses on the perspective of Mickey (perfectly played in the film by a raucous Robert Pattinson at his most wonderfully weird), the titular “expendable” who gets killed and ...

Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar winner behind ‘Parasite’, somehow convinced Warner Bros to finance a costly sci-fi epic about the ...

Yet if Mickey’s life is suffocatingly bleak, Mickey 17 is anything but. Rather, it’s a wacky, satisfyingly strange romp that further reaffirms Bong Joon Ho as a singular filmmaker. The director isn’t ...

Yet if Mickey’s life is suffocatingly bleak, Mickey 17 is anything but. Rather, it’s a wacky, satisfyingly strange romp that further reaffirms Bong Joon Ho as a singular filmmaker. The director isn’t ...

The director Bong Joon Ho’s new movie, Mickey 17, at first seems like a major pivot from his previous one, 2019’s Parasite. After winning Best Picture at the Oscars for the domestic (if gonzo) Korean ...