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A Clockwork Orange

1971

Stanley Kubrick

Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Adrienne Corri ...

8.2

169,395

Drama United Kingdom. In an undetermined future, Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is the leader of a gang of «droogs» who walks the streets of London cultivating his sole two passions: ultraviolence and Beethoven's music. He and his young followers vent their most violent instincts on any person crossing their path. They beat, rape and terrorize their victims. When their escalation of terror culminates in murder, Alex is arrested and sent to prison. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[It] is so beautiful to look at and to hear that it dazzles the senses and the mind"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy (...) It pretends to oppose the police state and forced mind control, but all it really does is celebrate the nastiness of its hero (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"A much-maligned and misunderstood classic, this is one of Kubrick's finest movies (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"It's something you can watch again, only to find yourself ferociously disagreeing with whatever you last thought of it. The film's thesis on an individual's moral choice may remain fixed in itself, but its implications shift as we do."	NEU
United States	New York Daily News	"His technical assurance, his command of the media, is remarkable to behold. Everything has been strategically planned"	POS
United States	A.D. Murphy Variety	"A brilliant nightmare (...) Uncomfortably proximate, disturbingly plausible and obliquely resolved"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A glossy, action-packed ritual which is fun to watch but superficial to think about."	NEU
United States	Andrew Sarris Village Voice	"A painless, bloodless, and ultimately pointless futuristic fantasy (...) What we have here is simply a pretentious fake."	NEG

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