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Strange Days

1995

Kathryn Bigelow

Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Lewis, Angela Bassett, Tom Sizemore ...

6.7

21,112

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Thriller Los Angeles, December 30, 1999 -- The eve of the Millenium. In the digital underground of the violent and chaotic city, human experience is bought and sold as the newest form of illicit entertainment. Meet Lenny Nero -- street hustler, ex-cop, panhandler of stolen dreams. As the world spins toward the last midnight of this century, he finds himself drawn into a vortex of paranoia and murder. All he needs to do is get the woman who loves ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"This is the first movie about virtual reality to deal in a challenging way with the implications of the technology (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It’s as if Philip K. Dick had recircuited Brian De Palma’s brain (...) Feverish and exciting"
		Time Out	"Flawed, but often brilliant, provocative film-making."
		William Thomas Empire	"There are flaws (...) Bigelow has, though, encapsulated a million paranoias under one guise, and her craft borders on the sublime (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"A technical tour de force for director Kathryn Bigelow and her team, pic is less accomplished in putting over its characters, emotions and dubious sociopolitical agenda."
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A troubling but undeniably breathless joy ride"

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