Abel Ferrara adapts William Gibson: Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe try to poach a corporate geneticist, with Asia Argento entangled in the scheme. Ryuichi Sakamoto appears. Newly included in Criterion’s September programming, it is an intriguing alternative to another lengthy prestige series: corporate espionage that unravels into a dream of betrayal. Watch on Criterion, September availability
The caveat is load-bearing: the final stretch recirculates and destabilizes what you have seen instead of tidily advancing the plot. Choose it for a Lynch-adjacent, atmospheric night—not when you want the clean mechanics of a thriller. Adrian Martin’s critical account