Parasite director Bong Joon-ho directs Robert Pattinson in a dark sci-fi satire filled with clones and creatures. Our review of Mickey 17:

As science fiction has so consistently pointed out, humanity’s flaws will follow us no matter how far into space we travel. Artificially-intelligent computers will glitch out and try to kill us because they’re the flawed products of a flawed species. We’ll go to other worlds and kill whatever creatures we might find there because, for some reason, we just can’t outrun our murderous, colonial past.

Mickey 17 is the latest film from writer-director Bong Joon-ho, a filmmaker who has long looked witheringly at our worst impulses. Coming almost six years after his Best Picture-winning thriller Parasite, this is a blackly comic sci-fi satire more of a piece with The Host, Snowpiercer or Okja – a more antic, scattershot genre piece, but no less pointed...