A Clockwork Orange Reviews
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
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Ice cold, indecent, and way too obvious to be in any way deep.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
A painless, bloodless, and ultimately pointless futuristic fantasy.
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.
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
It demands thought, compels the attention, and refuses to be dismissed.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Arizona Daily Star
May be Kubrick's greatest film, for its lasting influence and social significance.
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| Original Score: 4/4
eFilmCritic.com
Remains as unsettling and shocking today as the day it was released.
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| Original Score: 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+
Combustible Celluloid
It's a very dark message, but maybe that's why the film caught on as a video cult item in the 80s.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
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.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A visual joyride, something that is terrifyingly pertinent in an eerie sort of way.
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| Original Score: B+
Apollo Guide
Real horrorshow, that.
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| Original Score: 94/100
Shadows on the Wall
Jarring, uncomfortable, surprisingly moving and ultimately unforgettable.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Reeling Reviews
"A Clockwork Orange" is on of Kubrick's best and a marvelous adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel.
| Original Score: 5/5
Movie Metropolis
All of Kubricks films have generated controversy, but this one engendered outright hostility.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Slant Magazine
Spectacular, operatic, colorful, and exquisitely photographed.
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| Original Score: 4/4
At once [Kubrick's] most thematically problematic film and his most unforgettably sensational.
