2001: A Space Odyssey Reviews
Top CriticStanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is some sort of great film, and an unforgettable endeavor. Technically and imaginatively, what he put into it is staggering.
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Matched Kubrick's photographic eye to a story about watching, transformed him into a director of the epic, and made one giant leap in sci-fi cinema that's never been matched.
Cinema Autopsy
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest films of all time and it is the director's most profound and confounding exploration of humanity's relationship to technology, violence, sexuality and social structures.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Film Snobbery
Perhaps the beauty of 2001 is appreciating that some of the best stories are the ones that are half-told.
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| Original Score: 5/5
ColeSmithey.com
With his virtuosic adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Stanley Kubrick invented the modern science fiction film.
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| Original Score: A+
Common Sense Media
Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece is still relevant.
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| Original Score: 5/5
eFilmCritic.com
Kubrick set out to make "the proverbial good science-fiction film," but he came out the other side with something far more ornery and profound.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Slant Magazine
Central to the profundity of the film is the notion that few things are more meaningful than a child's first steps, the emotive impact of this scenario manifest in every one of the film's dizzying set pieces, albeit multiplied to epic proportions.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Filmcritic.com
2001 certainly is a colossal bore, unless you're on its wavelength, in which case it's one of the greatest films of all time.
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| Original Score: 5/5
The film's projections of the cold war and antiquated product placements may look quaint now, but the poetry is as hard-edged and full of wonder as ever.
It was a freshening attitude then, though its long-term effects haven't been all to the good.
For all the essential coldness of Kubrick's vision, it demands attention as superior sci-fi, simply because it's more concerned with ideas than with Boy's Own-style pyrotechnics.
DVDJournal.com
It has reached the status of Art, meaning that it's going to go on provoking strong opinions.
Arizona Daily Star
Part space opera, part cinematic symphony and part horror story, the film is a shape-shifting painting.
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| Original Score: 4/4
EmanuelLevy.Com
The most influential sci-fi film ever made, 2001 caused culture shock when released, forever changing the conventions, style, and prestige of the previously debased genre
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| Original Score: A-
Panorama
Une leçon de cinéma par l'un de ses plus grands artisans.
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| Original Score: A+
Looking Closer
2001 speaks by monolith -- that is, by image, metaphor, poetry, and suggestion.
| Original Score: A+
