A Clockwork Orange Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

A violent meditation on violence. Not for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The rare film that hits you in the head and stomach simultaneously.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

[VIDEO ESSAY] There's Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," and then there's everything else.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

The music made me do it

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

A merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect.

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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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

Spectacular, operatic, colorful, and exquisitely photographed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

All of Kubricks films have generated controversy, but this one engendered outright hostility.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Remains as unsettling and shocking today as the day it was released.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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?

Full Review | 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.

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May be Kubrick's greatest film, for its lasting influence and social significance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's a very dark message, but maybe that's why the film caught on as a video cult item in the 80s.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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Technically, the film is a marvel. It's easily Kubrick's best and boldest work.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A tight-fitting example of a neo-classic.

| Original Score: 5/5