I have seen my share of action movies, monster movies, and, to my chagrin, horror movies, but seldom have I seen a movie that treated the human body so callously, so coldly, or so cavalierly as Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17.

In his first outing behind the camera since 2019’s Oscar-winning sensation Parasite, Bong has made a movie in which the body is something to be incinerated, frozen, and annihilated. A sci-fi satire, Mickey 17 arrives with all sorts of humanistic window dressing, but it is the most boldly antihuman movie to arrive on screens since the last installment of James Cameron’s abhorrent Avatar franchise.