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Children of Men works on every level: as a violent chase thriller, a fantastical cautionary tale, and a sophisticated human drama about societies struggling to live.
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Children of Men founders in its latter moments -- not a lot, but enough. Its failure is less one of plot than of something deeper, a composing idea to undergird the plot. April 1, 2015 | Full Review…
Children of Men founders in its latter moments -- not a lot, but enough. Its failure is less one of plot than of something deeper, a composing idea to undergird the plot.
Christopher Orr
If you thought the battle scenes in... Saving Private Ryan were tough going, the final 20 minutes of Children of Men will not only shake you, they'll have you revising your expectations about just how realistic cinematic portrayals of combat can get. April 1, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
If you thought the battle scenes in... Saving Private Ryan were tough going, the final 20 minutes of Children of Men will not only shake you, they'll have you revising your expectations about just how realistic cinematic portrayals of combat can get.
Jim Schembri
Cuaron asks us to find hope in a grim nativity story where a reluctant hero and scared would-be mother try to find shelter in a land that desperately needs a newborn savior. May 15, 2009 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Cuaron asks us to find hope in a grim nativity story where a reluctant hero and scared would-be mother try to find shelter in a land that desperately needs a newborn savior.
Amy Nicholson
Cuaron fulfills the promise of futuristic fiction; characters do not wear strange costumes or visit the moon, and the cities are not plastic hallucinations, but look just like today, except tired and shabby. October 5, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Cuaron fulfills the promise of futuristic fiction; characters do not wear strange costumes or visit the moon, and the cities are not plastic hallucinations, but look just like today, except tired and shabby.
Roger Ebert
You feel as if you're accompanying a war photographer who's lost a bet. Slogging unflinchingly through humanity's worst hours, the movie laces the narrative's forays into science-fiction grandstanding with a gut-wrenching dynamic. February 3, 2007 | Rating: 4/5
You feel as if you're accompanying a war photographer who's lost a bet. Slogging unflinchingly through humanity's worst hours, the movie laces the narrative's forays into science-fiction grandstanding with a gut-wrenching dynamic.
Joshua Rothkopf
What I find particularly irksome about it is its pseudo-humanism and its calculating political correctness. January 17, 2007 | Full Review…
What I find particularly irksome about it is its pseudo-humanism and its calculating political correctness.
Andrew Sarris
A rare kind of film -- thought-provoking, but full of intense action scenes. November 21, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
A rare kind of film -- thought-provoking, but full of intense action scenes.
Micheal Compton
The final 25 minutes is truly filmmaking at its absolute best. August 5, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The final 25 minutes is truly filmmaking at its absolute best.
Karl Delossantos
You find yourself reaching for that terribly over-used and abused superlative: masterpiece. June 27, 2019 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
You find yourself reaching for that terribly over-used and abused superlative: masterpiece.
Grant Watson
If any film is to define the state of American cinema in "the aughts," let it be Children of Men. June 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
If any film is to define the state of American cinema in "the aughts," let it be Children of Men.
Matthew Lucas
It is simultaneously soul-crushing and spirit-lifting. Watching twelve years after its release, the potent themes of immigration, border control, and seeking humanity in others means Children of Men remains more timely than ever. November 10, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It is simultaneously soul-crushing and spirit-lifting. Watching twelve years after its release, the potent themes of immigration, border control, and seeking humanity in others means Children of Men remains more timely than ever.
Millicent Thomas
Beautifully directed and magnificently crafted, it's a wrenching thriller in a grimy world of industrial decay, a distorted mirror of today in a palette of cement dust. November 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Beautifully directed and magnificently crafted, it's a wrenching thriller in a grimy world of industrial decay, a distorted mirror of today in a palette of cement dust.
Sean Axmaker
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