2001: A Space Odyssey Reviews
Top CriticNow, seen in the actual 2001, it's less a visionary masterpiece than a crackpot Looney Tune, pretentious, abysmally slow, amateurishly acted and, above all, wrong.
2001 compares with, but does not best, previous efforts at science fiction.
Stanley 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.
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
Zertinet Movies
Those who love it as passionately as I do realize this film is about more than dialogue, plot, or space ships. Its uniqueness permits it to transcend the ordinary, becoming a movie not about one human but the entire human species.
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| Original Score: 4/4
The film creates its effects essentially out of visuals and music. It is meditative. It does not cater to us, but wants to inspire us, enlarge us.
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| Original Score: 4/4
A cold, majestic motion picture, a movie that seeks to remind us of the vastness of space and our relatively insignificant place in it.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
In this science fiction masterpiece, Stanley Kubrick tracks the odyssey of mankind, from the dawn of man four million years ago to the exploration of deep space.
| Original Score: 5/5
Common Sense Media
Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece is still relevant.
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| Original Score: 5/5
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
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
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
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.
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+
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.
Combustible Celluloid
If you ask me, Kubrick's effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which were made by human hands, are still unsurpassed.
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| Original Score: 4/4
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
It could be the greatest freak-out of all time.
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| Original Score: 5/5
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.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's a film based on self-discovery and intellect and contemplation.
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| Original Score: A+
