The Canadian director David Cronenberg has perhaps never loomed larger over our culture than he has in the past year. In 2022, the body-horror pioneer released Crimes of the Future, his first film since 2014’s Maps to the Stars. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux as performance artists who carry out gruesome surgeries for an enraptured public, the film was a return to the queasy subject matter that had made Cronenberg’s name, after two decades during which he had dabbled in crime drama and Hollywood satire before taking eight years off.
