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A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

Steven Spielberg

Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards ...

6.5

67,121

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Drama Sometime in the future of the 21st century, in a time when the Greenhouse Effect has melted the icecaps, submerging many of the coastal cities in water, mankind depends upon computers with artificial intelligence to maintain our way of life. Man has also found new friends in A.I., in the form of robots that are used for a variety of functions. This story is about a boy robot, and the emotional journey he makes toward becoming something more. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A movie both wonderful and maddening (...) "A.I." is audacious, technically masterful, challenging, sometimes moving, ceaselessly watchable (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Its heart is in the right place. But the intelligence behind the rest of the movie is, well, a little too artificial"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The best fairy tale - the most disturbing, complex and intellectually challenging boy's adventure story - Mr. Spielberg has made"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"'A.I' is the child of HAL and E.T (...) Deeply thoughtful and thoroughly fascinating"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"Fascinating, if uneven and ultimately rather silly"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"It's not the film's obvious flaws that linger, but the delicacy of its virtues (...) One of the defining films of its time"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A terrible disappointment: a very quaint, dated vision of the 'future' with some of the ickiest, trickiest, sickiest child acting you are likely to see."	NEG
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"Pure magic, a three-act movie fantasy that transports us -- as the best films do -- to a world of its own, a place of ambiguous joy and delirious terror"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"The epilogue set in the future (...) provides the film with a shattering payoff that raises it to the level of both directors' greatest work."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Difficult and challenging, it is also profound, extraordinary and visually astounding. Tally it up and you've got a very unusual masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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