It’s been five long years and possibly several lifetimes since Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2019 – a great movie year and the last one before the pandemic shifted the industry forever. This weekend, the singular South Korean filmmaker finally returns to theaters with Mickey 17, a big-studio sci-fi comedy from Warner Bros. At several points in the past year-plus, Warner seemed uncertain about how or when to release this strange but entertaining picture about an expendable worker (Robert Pattinson) who is repeatedly killed and cloned as a condition of his off-Earth employment. Though it’s hard to sympathize with a studio seemingly regretting giving money to a great filmmaker, it’s also possible that anyone introduced to Bong’s work via Parasite will find the sillier and more overtly wacky Mickey 17 a disorienting experience. Thematically, the two films are of a piece, but stylistically and
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