Strange Days Reviews
Top CriticDirector Kathryn Bigelow comes closer than any other filmmaker to turning movies into a virtual reality trip.
ColeSmithey.com
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Strange Days" owes a debt to Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom," the film that ruined his storied career.
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| Original Score: A
Combustible Celluloid
[Bigelow] with the help of her talented cast, constantly wrestles against the script, and for a great deal of time, she appears to be winning.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Set in LA at the end of the century, this morality tales showed again the main problem in the director's work: The great divide between simlistic plots and technical sophistication. Even so, it's one of a kind for its use of color, sound and motion
| Original Score: B
ViewLondon
Engaging, genuinely thrilling sci-fi. Enough to make you wish Bigelow made a movie a year.
| Original Score: 4/5
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
A thrilling and thought-provoking sci-fi mystery.
| Original Score: 4/5
TheMovieReport.com
An ambitious, unsettling, and effective work.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Empire Magazine
Ralph Fiennes is the perfect sleazebag, while Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis provide good support.
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| Original Score: 4/5
It's big, explosive entertainment and, although not directed by Cameron, is very much in the vein we've come to expect from him.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
It's fascinating the way Bigelow is able to suggest so much of VR's impact (and dangers) within a movie - a form of VR that's a century old.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Boxoffice Magazine
Little more than two-and-a-half hours of enjoyable action, futuristic gadgetry and characters perennially on the brink of being compelling.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Apollo Guide
A successful story of mystery and lost love with a sci-fi twist.
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| Original Score: 74/100
