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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Stanley Kubrick

Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter ...

7.8

116,098

Sci-Fi A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government (while hiding the situation from the public) sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission. Eighteen months later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the giant object--but on this trip something goes terribly wrong.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Most movies are about characters with a goal in mind (...) '2001: A Space Odyssey' is not about a goal but about a quest, a need (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		John Mahoney The Hollywood Reporter	"It is, as promised, 'a majestic visual experience', quite unlike any film we have ever seen"
		Renata Adler The New York Times	"The movie is so completely absorbed in its own problems, its use of color and space, its fanatical devotion to science-fiction detail, that it is somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Still visionary after all these years (...) [A] classic that influenced a generation of sci-fi films (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Its special effects are used so seamlessly as part of an overall artistic strategy that (...) they don't even register as such (...) The poetry is as hard-edged and full of wonder as ever"
		Robert B. Frederick Variety	"A major achievement in cinematography and special effects, '2001' lacks dramatic appeal to a large degree and only conveys suspense after the halfway mark."
		Angie Errigo Empire	"That it is both great and gobbledygook is still fascinating (...) Movies were born for experiences like this (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"It remains as intelligent and provocative as ever (...) Though it was showered with praise for its technical achievements, '2001' lingers more potently in the mind as a tall, black riddle (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"[It] is not a movie; it’s an experience (...) A small sphere of intellectuals will feel that Kubrick has said something, simply because one expected him to say something. Others will be disappointed"
		Almar Haflidason BBC	"[There are] moments of sheer brilliance and it is undoubtedly their stark visual power that lends this piece of cinema its famous visionary qualities (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kate Muir The Times	"Stanley Kubrick’s work of mad, transcendent genius seems all the smarter when viewed in the recent context of the laboured and expensive 'Interstellar'."
		Rob Humanick Slant	"It’s through the film’s silent, deliberate hypnosis that it achieves its ballet-like majesty.(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Sue Heal Radio Times	"The memorable celluloid images still strongly resonate (...) It is Kubrick's haunting, stylised combination of music (...) and visuals that gives '2001' its eerie, mesmerising quality (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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