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Cuaron fulfills the promise of futuristic fiction; characters do not wear strange costumes or visit the moon, and the cities are not plastic hallucinations, but look just like today, except tired and shabby.
What I find particularly irksome about it is its pseudo-humanism and its calculating political correctness.
A superior sci-fi thriller and the best doomsday drama since 28 Days Later.
Cuarón does lowdown takes on high concept better than anyone; no matter what genre he touches, he brings grit and loose-limbed humor along with the hand-held camera jangles.
Darkly poetic throughout, the film starts with an explosion and ends drifting in fog with no clear resolution in sight. How brave and oddly satisfying.
Gripping, violent look at the future. Adults only.
For all its dystopian, violent fury, "Children of Men's" grace distinguishes itself the most - an all-encompassing embrace of humanity, community and perseverance and an optimistic ending that doesn't feel at all like a cheat.
A special film by a gifted filmmaker.
Few recent films have so stunned me in segments, and so frustrated me as a whole
Cuaron asks us to find hope in a grim nativity story where a reluctant hero and scared would-be mother try to find shelter in a land that desperately needs a newborn savior.
[Includes] the most exciting and emotionally exhausting car chase since The French Connection.
Children of Men is a glorious mess. It's a Frankenstein monster of a movie. Part sci-fi, part thriller, part action genre, part religious allegory, it flays and lumbers after meaning-- sending off occasional sparks of style.
Children of Men succeeds as a downbeat dystopian thriller with some intriguing themes.
Cuarón delights in marshaling his showpieces, like the finer details of Jim Clay and Geoffrey Kirkland's just-futuristic-enough production design, or, especially, camera operator George Richmond's agile enactment of Emmanuel Lubezki's moody cinematography
This is an astounding piece of work - easily one of the best films of 2006.
I was entranced by this movie. Hypnotized. Spellbound. In a thrall. The final quarter of the film is nothing short of an evolutionary leap forward in filmmaking.
A compelling and haunting look at a dystopian England.
It does the job, it does it well, and the fact that it's being called a masterpiece for doing so speaks unwell of the current state of movies.
The DVD provides an excellent set of special features.
There are enough ideas here that the film's never boring, and Mr. Cuarón's bravura direction is thrilling from start to finish.
Top-notch suspense, intense action and totally believable sci-fi combine to make Children of Men gripping and a big winner.
I'm inclined to say 2006 was a bad year for film, but Cuarón proves me wrong...
The very soul of the film scoffs at the expectation of being conventional or formulaic.
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