Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Apr 29, 2024 4/5

This pseudo-sequel to 'Videodrome' is arguably better than its predecessor.

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Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast Apr 24, 2024 4/5

Cronenberg's meditation on gaming and simulation has a tinge of Y2K hysteria, but its philosophical questioning of the impact on our humanity is very welcome and low-fi compared to other films of the time. Also: Jennifer Jason Leigh devours this role.

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Kevin Carr Fat Guys at the Movies Feb 3, 2024 4/4

Bizarrely prescient and dripping in paranoia, this is Cronenberg’s last great effort into speculative fiction.

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Jason Shawhan Nashville Scene Sep 10, 2021

...this 1999 David Cronenberg masterpiece is one of the unheralded sci-fi classics of that decade.

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Jordan M. Smith IONCINEMA.com Nov 17, 2020

Though the rigidly wonky lead performances detract from the overall impact of eXistenZ, the feature remains a fun sci-fi romp into the inquisition of reality that hinges on signature Cronenberg style.

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Emma Wolfe SpookyAstronauts Oct 21, 2020 6/10

[I] thought it was good for what it was but it doesn't really beat other films I've seen like it.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Sep 11, 2020 4/10

As a multi-layered cautionary tale and satire, perhaps it's brilliant; but by the end, it ultimately seems like a lot of nonsense.

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Danny Leigh Financial Times Mar 26, 2020 4/5

What we have here is a witty sci-fi teaser built around the coming wave of deep immersion gaming.

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J. Hoberman The New York Review of Books Mar 8, 2019

It's striking that eXistenZ, a send-up of computer games that parodied The Matrix avant la lettre, and one of the great underappreciated movies of the late 1990s, yields the richest trove of relics.

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Rob Aldam Backseat Mafia Nov 8, 2018

Cronenberg wraps the tale in layers of mystery, never allowing the audience to confidentially comprehend precisely what is happening.

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Anton Bitel Little White Lies May 21, 2018

eXistenZ - both Allegra's latest beta release and David Cronenberg's dizzying B-movie - makes the different textures of game, film and life increasingly difficult to tease apart.

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Robert Martin Starburst May 15, 2018 8/10

eXistenZ is a hugely enjoyable SF thriller with a playfulness to its narrative that keeps you well and truly baffled as too where you are.

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Joseph Walsh The Skinny May 14, 2018 3/5

The world Cronenberg creates is his least immersive to date, but more interesting is his critique of what games and other forms of media do to our lives.

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Sean Burns WBUR’s Arts & Culture Mar 17, 2018

This is a David Cronenberg movie, so everything looks vaguely like a vagina.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 B

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 4/5

It's a disturbing, disorienting sensation -- puzzles within puzzles, games within games -- that continues right up to the last shot.

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Rob Humanick Projection Booth Oct 25, 2007 B

Experienced gamers should find much to savor through the films unique assessments on the nature of reality.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Jul 30, 2007 A

[Cronenberg is] a laughing existentialist here, a philosopher who sees the comedy in disorientation.

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Andrew Sarris Observer Apr 27, 2007

I just don't happen to like puzzle films of any kind, but I must credit Mr. Cronenberg with more intellectual depth than most of his fellow pessimistic movie pranksters.

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Geoff Andrew Time Out Jan 26, 2006

Dark, delirious fun.

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