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With a plot that folds in on itself and then proceeds to twist and turn until arriving at a very different place than it began, this science-fiction horror film from writer/director David Cronenberg is every bit as stimulating, absorbing, intelligent, and difficult to watch as his best genre films, The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), and Naked Lunch (1991). All of Cronenberg's trademarks are here: an overarching sense of doom, fiendishly gleeful gross-out gore, a healthy sense of humor about the proceedings, and serious questions about the nature of existence (hence the title). Leads Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh are required to do a lot more reacting than acting, but such is the nature of a Cronenberg phantasm, in which the unexpected is king. Like the vastly underrated Gattaca (1997), another thoughtful science fiction film that (like the best of the genre) is really about modern reality, eXistenZ is an aesthetically challenging work of art that is ripe for repeat viewing. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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