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In Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17', Robert Pattinson has excellent chemistry — with himself

Bong Joon-ho directed and wrote the sci-fi movie Mickey 17, based on Edward Ashton's novel Mickey7, which blends humor with existential themes about life and death in space.
Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, a character involved in dangerous situations, including fleeing from a violent loan shark while on a mission to an alien planet.

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Review: ‘Mickey 17,’ with Robert Pattinson (and clone) tackling the worst job in the universe

Set 29 years from now, writer-director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” imagines a world beyond ours because Earth isn’t worth the trouble anymore. Related Articles Movies | Movie review: ‘Eephus’ is the best baseball movie since ‘Moneyball’ Movies | Column: 7 thoughts on the Oscars, including the how and why of ‘Anora’ Movies | Oscars 2025: Top moments from the night according to social media Movies | …

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ELLE

What Can We Learn From the Delightfully Wacky Ending of 'Mickey 17'?

Director Bong Joon Ho said sci-fi films are meant to be “a portrait of us now and the reality around us, not of somewhere far out in space.”

8 hours ago·United States

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Hastings Tribune

Review: In 'Mickey 17,' Bong Joon Ho recycles Robert Pattinson and his old ideas

Of course Bong Joon Ho is an environmentalist. He recycles his own ideas.

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Cosmopolitan

The Wild but Hopeful ‘Mickey 17’ Ending, Explained

Decoding Bong Joon-ho’s long anticipated new film (so you can explain it to your friends and pretend you understood it to begin with).

12 hours ago

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Refinery29

In 'Mickey 17,' Naomi Ackie Isn’t The Disposable Girlfriend. She’s The Scene Stealing Star

The weirder Naomi Ackie gets, the more wonderful she is to watch. Here, she talks about what playing Whitney Houston taught her, the legacy of Blink Twice, developing chemistry with Pattinson in Mickey 17, *that* threesome scene, and who was doing Nasha’s braids in space.

15 hours ago·United States

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The Daily Iowan

Review | Robert Pattinson shines in ‘Mickey 17’ - The Daily Iowan

When the audience first meets Mickey, he has already died 16 times. Cartoonishly horrifying, “Mickey 17” is the latest project from director and screenwriter Bong Joon Ho, following his Oscar-sweeping masterpiece “Parasite.” Taking place in an eerily — or perhaps overly — familiar world, “Mickey 17” follows Micky Barnes, portrayed by Robert Pattinson, a disposable employee on a human expedition to colonize the snowy-white planet of Niflheim. The…

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