At the beginning of Mickey 17, you hear a voice. It’s squeaky, nasally, American, and certainly not Robert Pattinson’s, except that it is. We’ve never seen the English actor used in the way the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho (Parasite, Okja) uses him here: as a peculiar, hapless, and comic sci-fi hero. Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, an “Expendable” on a four-year space voyage led by Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo), part failed politician, part cult leader. Mickey’s in a job he didn’t mean to sign up for, and it has rendered him, thanks to “human printing technology,” immortal. He performs tasks that could potentially kill other humans. Often, he dies. Then he gets reprinted, renamed—Mickey 2, Mickey 3 … when we meet him he’s Mickey 17—and is sent back to work. That’s just the beginning of the fun. Wait until you meet the aliens. —Jack Sullivan