Strange Days

6.7

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Original title: Strange Days
Year: 1995
Running time: 139 min.
Country: United States
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Screenwriter: James Cameron, Jay Cocks
Music: Graeme Revell
Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Lewis, Angela Bassett, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Josef Sommer, Glenn Plummer, William Fichtner, Richard Edson, Joe Urla
Producer: 20th Century Fox. Producer: James Cameron
Genre: Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Thriller | Futuristic Thriller. Dystopia. New Year's Eve
Synopsis: 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 him to help him save the woman he loves. And somehow make it through the night alive.

Rankings Position

#140 Best Science Fiction Movies

Awards: 1995: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Cinematography

Critics' reviews

"This is the first movie about virtual reality to deal in a challenging way with the implications of the technology (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"It’s as if Philip K. Dick had recircuited Brian De Palma’s brain (...) Feverish and exciting"

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"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."

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"A troubling but undeniably breathless joy ride"

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"Flawed, but often brilliant, provocative film-making."

Time Out
"There are flaws (...) Bigelow has, though, encapsulated a million paranoias under one guise, and her craft borders on the sublime (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

William Thomas: Empire

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