the way Mickey 17 explores broader ideas about love, death, compassion, and violence couldn’t be more different. Ashton’s story focuses on the perspective of Mickey (perfectly played in the ...

Robert Pattinson dies so many times in “Mickey 17,” you’d swear it was a “Twilight” haters convention. Director Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”) plumbs the worst possible version of ...

He let a stuntman take over when a Mickey falls out of the printer and onto the floor ― “It’s actually quite complicated to flop out onto your head” ― and didn’t love trying to act ...

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though ...

This causes all sorts of personal and professional problems when Mickey 17 comes face-to-face with the new version of himself, one who’s been sexing up Nasha better than he ever could. The love ...

Victoria Song is a senior reviewer at The Verge who mostly focuses on health tech and wearables and who, she says, occasionally has “existential crises over silly gadgets I bought on TikTok ...

Now comes Bong's new movie, Mickey 17, an outlandish, otherworldly farce that also paints in broadly satirical strokes. The movie, adapted from a novel by Edward Ashton, begins in the year 2054 ...

There have been plenty of new opportunities to dwell on society’s love affair with authoritarianism since Bong finished writing the script for Mickey 17 in September 2021, a year and a half ...

“Have a nice death,” Timo says offhandedly. Mickey shivers. “Yeah, no … we’re cool.” Inconceivably, women love him. Mickey has an out-of-his-league girlfriend, Nasha (Naomi Ackie ...

Mickey 17 stars Naomi Ackie and Toni Collette address their respective romances in Bong Joon Ho's new sci-fi movie and debate the technology.

The cafeteria crowd beams at them with adoration—except for Nasha and Mickey, and as they roll their eyes in one another’s direction, it’s love at first sight. Naomi Ackie and Robert ...