# ‘Ray Gunn’ movie review: A swanky retro-futurist noir with an anti-corporate axe to grind

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ray-gunn-movie-review-a-swanky-retro-futurist-noir-with-an-anti-corporate-axe-to-grind/
- Published: 2026-11-01T05:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T05:37:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/brad-bird-ray-gunn-movie-review/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- Brad Bird blends classic detective noir with futuristic animation.
- A spying job involving pop star Venus Nova reveals a career-threatening secret.
- The film takes aim at corporate control, AI doubles and commercialised art.

## Summary

Brad Bird’s animated film Ray Gunn uses a hard-boiled detective story to explore the pressures on art from corporate control and artificial intelligence. Set in a vast future city shared by humans and aliens, it follows private investigator Raymond Gunn as a routine spying job involving pop star Venus Nova uncovers a secret that threatens her career.

Sam Rockwell voices Gunn, with Tom Waits as his alien partner Eye-ra Kadok; the cast also includes Scarlett Johansson, Bobby Cannavale, Matt Berry, Alan Tudyk and Michelle Rodriguez. The review praises the film’s detailed retro-futurist animation and familiar noir setting, while noting its broad satire of corporate management, AI doubles and the commercial use of diversity.

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