A Clockwork Orange Reviews
A painless, bloodless, and ultimately pointless futuristic fantasy.
Kubrick's contributions are his wit and his eye. The wit, too much at times, is as biting as in Dr. Strangelove, and the production, while of another order, is as spectacular as in 2001.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Common Sense Media
A violent meditation on violence. Not for kids.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Bullz-Eye.com
The rare film that hits you in the head and stomach simultaneously.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
ColeSmithey.com
[VIDEO ESSAY] There's Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," and then there's everything else.
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| Original Score: A+
TIME Magazine
Top CriticA merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect.
ESplatter
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.
EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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| Original Score: A-
Slant Magazine
Spectacular, operatic, colorful, and exquisitely photographed.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movie Metropolis
All of Kubricks films have generated controversy, but this one engendered outright hostility.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Film4
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
eFilmCritic.com
Remains as unsettling and shocking today as the day it was released.
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| Original Score: 5/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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?
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| Original Score: 4/4
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.
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.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Ice cold, indecent, and way too obvious to be in any way deep.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Time Out
Top CriticA sexless, inhuman film, whose power derives from a ruthless subordination of its content to the demands of telling a good story.
Arizona Daily Star
May be Kubrick's greatest film, for its lasting influence and social significance.
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| Original Score: 4/4
A Clockwork Orange is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading as an Orwellian warning.
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| Original Score: 2/4
