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A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 181

Fresh: 132

Rotten:49

Average Rating: 6.6/10

Consensus: A curious, not always seamless, amalgamation of Kubrick's chilly bleakness and Spielberg's warm-hearted optimism, A.I. is, in a word, fascinating.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some sexual content and violent images

Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jun 29, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $77,620,945

Synopsis: It is a time when natural resources are limited and technology is advancing at an astronomical pace. Where you live is monitored; what you eat is engineered; and the person serving you is not a... It is a time when natural resources are limited and technology is advancing at an astronomical pace. Where you live is monitored; what you eat is engineered; and the person serving you is not a person at all. It’s artificial. Gardening, housekeeping, companionship -- there is a robot for every need. Except love.

Emotion is the last, controversial frontier in robot evolution. Robots are seen as sophisticated appliances; they’re not supposed to have feelings. But with so many parents not yet approved to have children, the possibilities abound.

And Cybertronics Manufacturing has created the solution.

His name is David (HALEY JOEL OSMENT).

A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (SAM ROBARDS) and his wife (FRANCES O’CONNOR), whose own terminally ill child has been cryogenically frozen until a cure can be found. Though he gradually becomes their child, with all the love and stewardship that entails, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Without final acceptance by humans or machines, and armed only with Teddy, his supertoy teddy bear and protector, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both terrifyingly vast and profoundly thin. -- © 2001 Warner Bros. [More]

Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Jake Thomas

Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Jake Thomas, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Sam Robards, Adam Scott, Kathryn Morris, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Clara Bellar, Keith Campbell, Miguel Perez, Jack Angel, Robin Williams, Meryl Streep, Chris Rock

Director: Steven Spielberg

Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Bonnie Curtis
Composer: John Williams
Studio: Warner Bros.

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10/18/08
Ebert & Roeper
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Shows a more complicated understanding of childhood than you would expect...

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/17/08
Matthew De Abaitua
Channel 4 Film

At heart it's a terribly anguished expression of rejection, loneliness and love. If only it knew when to stop.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
08/16/07
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

This may be the first solipsistic epic since 2001, but it has none of that film's wonder or mystery.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment 1 Comment
07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

It's odd to see the nearly infallible Steven Spielberg so visibly unsure of himself.

Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

At heart it's a terribly anguished expression of rejection, loneliness and love. If only it knew when to stop.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
02/09/06
Time Out New York
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Steven Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is a return to sci-fi in true form.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Chris Gore
Film Threat

One of Spielberg's most ambitious and problematic films, a result of trying to blend two divergent sensibilities, his and Kubrick's, but as a sci-fi, it has both thematic and visual merits.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
08/09/05
Emanuel Levy
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The demands of the story would have been better served by Kubrick.

Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

[The] middle section [of A.I.] contains perhaps Spielberg's finest work, ever.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
09/06/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Although the film itself and its immaculate pacing keeps us believing his love is real – it is impossible to be intellectually honest and come to that conclusion.

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07/13/04
Jordan Hiller
Bangitout.com

It turns out that Kubrick was right. The problems this story presented couldn’t be solved after all.

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01/01/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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05/23/03
Kit Bowen
Hollywood.com

Striking in looks but peculiarly disturbing in tone, the futuristic tale that began as a Kubrick project and finished under writer-director Spielberg is more nightmare than feel-good fantasy.

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05/20/03
Susan Tavernetti
Palo Alto Weekly

From Kubrickese to Spielbergian, something got lost in the translation. What could have been a dark but brilliant film drags on until it finds some kind of happy ending

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03/20/03
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

Spielberg's insistence on labouring the Pinocchio resonance becomes extremely jarring, and nostalgia for the wide-eyed charm of his 1982 masterpiece 'E.T.' strengthens as the film staggers to its over-wrought climax.

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02/13/03
Tom Grealis
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

An apt tribute to Kubrick, blending a fascinating subject with unsettling imagery.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

A.I. stands as a work that allows us to see ourselves in the things that we have created. For good or for bad, it is eye opening experience.

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01/21/03
Jimmy O
Film Snobs

A.I. is beguilingly enervated by a terror of its own darkness, a frenzied chase down too many separate rabbit holes in an attempt to escape its troubling implications.

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01/10/03
Nick Davis
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This could have been a great Spielberg movie. This could have been a great Kubrick movie. It is neither.

Full Review Source: Hot Button | comment Comment
01/07/03
David Poland
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