A Clockwork Orange (1971)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 40 Fresh: 36 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Consensus:
Disturbing and thought-provoking, A Clockwork Orange is a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor.
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Synopsis: From its opening shot of Malcolm McDowell staring with evil intent directly into the camera (which pulls back to reveal him drinking a glass of milk), Stanley Kubrick's brilliant A CLOCKWORK ORANGE announces itself as a completely new kind of viewing experience. The film, set in an... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Aubrey Morris, James Marcus
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Composer: Walter Carlos
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Composer: Walter Carlos
Buy It On DVD
Reviews
Producer-director Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel is a strangely overwhelming experience %u2013 at time contemptible, and yet always valid in its sardonic outlook.
Comment
07/23/08
Ambitious and stylized (perhaps to a fault), Kubrick's poignantly prophetic satire of crime and punishment, redemption and free will, is still much misunderstood by critics emphasizing its ultra-violence.
02/22/08
All of Kubrick´s films have generated controversy, but this one engendered outright hostility.
11/03/07
Directed with assurance and filled with the cynicism, paranoia, visual flair (and lurid titillation) that characterised so much of his work, this is vintage Kubrick and classic cinema.
10/02/07
Who else but Stanley Kubrick could successfully direct an ultra-stylish, sci-fi cult film about the impossibility of redemption in the absence of freely willed sin?
05/08/07
Stanley Kubrick's latest film takes the heavy realities of the 'do-your-thing' and 'law-and-order' syndromes, runs them through a cinematic centrifuge, and spews forth the commingled comic horrors of a regulated society.
05/08/07
Top Critic
A very bad film -- snide, barely competent, and overdrawn -- that enjoys a perennial popularity, perhaps because its confused moral position appeals to the secret Nietzscheans within us.
05/08/07
Top Critic
A sexless, inhuman film, whose power derives from a ruthless subordination of its content to the demands of telling a good story.
02/09/06
May be Kubrick's greatest film, for its lasting influence and social significance.
02/25/05
A Clockwork Orange is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading as an Orwellian warning.
10/23/04
Top Critic
It's a very dark message, but maybe that's why the film caught on as a video cult item in the 80s.
05/17/04
Technically, the film is a marvel. It's easily Kubrick's best and boldest work.
07/21/03
Related Forums
Best Movie Ever
by: Ivy Killa 4/22
by: Ivy Killa 4/22
News
AFI Announces Top 100 Movies of All Time ... Again
posted by Scott Weinberg June 22, 2007
Ten years ago the AFI gave us a list of the Top 100 American Films Ever Made -- and when that was done they churned out 15...
posted by Scott Weinberg June 22, 2007
Ten years ago the AFI gave us a list of the Top 100 American Films Ever Made -- and when that was done they churned out 15...
"The Dark Knight" Chatter: Heath Ledger On The Joker, Bob Hoskins as The Penguin?
posted by Jen Yamato September 11, 2006
We already know "Brokeback" star Heath Ledger is working on his maniacal grin for Christopher Nolan's...
posted by Jen Yamato September 11, 2006
We already know "Brokeback" star Heath Ledger is working on his maniacal grin for Christopher Nolan's...
Bates, McDowell and Leigh to Hit the "Funny Farm"
posted by Scott Weinberg May 17, 2005
From Cannes, The Hollywood Reporter brings news of an upcoming ensemble comedy that sounds pretty enticing: Kathy...
posted by Scott Weinberg May 17, 2005
From Cannes, The Hollywood Reporter brings news of an upcoming ensemble comedy that sounds pretty enticing: Kathy...
IGN RSS Feeds