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George Lucas' feature debut presents a spare, bleak, dystopian future, and features evocatively minimal set design and creepy sound effects.
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Despite his scenes of bland horror, Lucas offers the 25th century as a arch, campy place, a conception not satiric enough to be accepted as comedy and not quite insightful enough to be taken seriously. Feb 7, 2018 | Full Review…
Despite his scenes of bland horror, Lucas offers the 25th century as a arch, campy place, a conception not satiric enough to be accepted as comedy and not quite insightful enough to be taken seriously.
Stefan Kanfer
The empty space surrounding the vulnerable man emphasizes the exertion involved rather than the goal of escape: like the hologram who came to life because he wanted to, THX finally achieves his humanity by an assertion of will. Jan 18, 2013 | Full Review…
The empty space surrounding the vulnerable man emphasizes the exertion involved rather than the goal of escape: like the hologram who came to life because he wanted to, THX finally achieves his humanity by an assertion of will.
William Paul
With political paternalism rampant at both extremes of the spectrum, Lucas is onto something. In any case, we'll know for sure in about a generation. Jun 5, 2007 | Full Review…
With political paternalism rampant at both extremes of the spectrum, Lucas is onto something. In any case, we'll know for sure in about a generation.
A.D. Murphy
Visually it is often extraordinary, with Lucas playing on perspectives and dislocations throughout, nowhere more brilliantly than in the 'prison' represented by a limbo of whiteness that seems to stretch as far as the eye can see. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Visually it is often extraordinary, with Lucas playing on perspectives and dislocations throughout, nowhere more brilliantly than in the 'prison' represented by a limbo of whiteness that seems to stretch as far as the eye can see.
Geoff Andrew
I have a good many reservations about the film's ideas, but they are greatly outweighed by my admiration for a technical virtuosity that by fair means and foul achieves exceptional emotional intensity at the same time. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
I have a good many reservations about the film's ideas, but they are greatly outweighed by my admiration for a technical virtuosity that by fair means and foul achieves exceptional emotional intensity at the same time.
Roger Greenspun
The whole thing feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world. Sep 13, 2004 | Full Review…
The whole thing feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world.
Desson Thomson
...devoid of even the most basic exposition designed to draw the viewer into its oddball futuristic landscape... Dec 7, 2019 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
...devoid of even the most basic exposition designed to draw the viewer into its oddball futuristic landscape...
David Nusair
THX 1138 isn't a perfect sci-film but it is solidly entertaining and very unique. Mar 13, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
THX 1138 isn't a perfect sci-film but it is solidly entertaining and very unique.
Rachel Wagner
long and cumbersome Jan 19, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
long and cumbersome
Kevin Carr
Slow sci-fi drama for die hard Lucas fans only. Jan 1, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Slow sci-fi drama for die hard Lucas fans only.
David Gurney
Tedious pacing contributes to the confusing nature of the movie, but George Lucas' restored "THX-1138" is essential viewing to distinguish his artistic vision before he transformed Hollywood. May 7, 2009 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Tedious pacing contributes to the confusing nature of the movie, but George Lucas' restored "THX-1138" is essential viewing to distinguish his artistic vision before he transformed Hollywood.
Cole Smithey
Meditative and downbeat rather than crowd-pleasing, the film includes a few sequences that suggest the direction Lucas career later took. Jun 5, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Meditative and downbeat rather than crowd-pleasing, the film includes a few sequences that suggest the direction Lucas career later took.
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