Blade Runner Reviews
Mania.com
A motion picture masterpiece on the short list of Reasons Why This Medium is Worthwhile.
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| Original Score: A+
Antagony & Ecstasy
It takes a particularly weird kind of sincerity to end a movie that has been for its entire running time an exploration of surfaces... with its most sublime and humane gesture.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Top Critic
This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
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| Original Score: A-
ColeSmithey.com
[VIDEO] Blade Runner is one of the most enigmatic yet problematic science fiction films ever made.
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| Original Score: A+
EmanuelLevy.Com
A quintessential film noir of the 1980s, much underestimated at the time of release.
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| Original Score: A-
Common Sense Media
A dark, philosophical sci-fi drama for older teens.
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| Original Score: 4/5
As a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers.
Film4
From the opening shot of a Los Angeles cityscape at night in the year 2019, it is clear that Scott has conjured up something special.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Sacramento News & Review
For all its armor of brutalizing urban dystopia (and, boy, is there a lot of that -- you could fund a war on terror with the fog- and rain-machine budgets alone), Blade Runner has a gooey center.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sci-Fi Movie Page
It may be a quarter of a century old, but Blade Runner still seems like the future . . .
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Probably close to being on par with Fritz Lang's Metropolis in terms of grandeur -- although of a stunningly different and far more unsettling kind.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Kansas City Star
The new version helped me see the soul because, ironically, this rendering is so much brighter. Noir or not, a film you can't see properly is a film you can't fully appreciate.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
eFilmCritic.com
Though it's a triumph of visual futurism and an ornament to sci-fi cinema as well as to cinema in general, I resist it on some level.
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| Original Score: 4/5
MSN.com
It's an overwhelming, immersive experience, a total creation of a possible future so complete that you don't need exposition to know how we got from here to there (2019).
Movie Metropolis
Stylistically, Blade Runner is the Citizen Kane of sci-fi movies.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Filmcritic.com
Scott's film may keep us at arm's length, but it holds us, too.
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| Original Score: 4/5
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Blade Runner, which does not look one bit dated, envelops us so completely in its off-kilter, near-future world.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Combustible Celluloid
The changes are minor, but the overall effect is a much cleaner, more logical, and more organically flowing movie.
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| Original Score: 4/4
