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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 32 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Sci-fi
Written by:
Steven Spielberg
Ian Watson (screen story)
Brian Aldiss (short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 29, 2001
DVD: March 5, 2002
Running Time: 140 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some sexual content and violent images
Starring Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, and William Hurt
Started by Stanley Kubrick and finished by Spielberg, this project was adapted from Brian Aldiss's 1966 short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long." The film explores the idea of programming a child robot so that he is able to love.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
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.
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A film that might make you cry watching it is just as likely to give you the creeps thinking about it afterward, which is as it should be.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
There aren't many at all like Spielberg and Kubrick, directors willing to lasso dreams (that's Steven) and nightmares (that's Stanley) or die trying. A.I. is a clash of the titans, a jumble, an oedipal drama, a carny act. I want to see it again.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The movie is exactly what it's billed to be: the successful blending of two distinctly different filmmaking sensibilities from two different generations. But the stronger, and more pessimistic, sensibility -- Kubrick's -- carries the day.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
The result is fascinating -- a rich, strange, problematical movie full of wild tonal shifts and bravura moviemaking.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
This is not "E.T.," nor is it a kid's film nor even necessarily a major mass-audience film, although Spielberg's name, high public anticipation and the child-oriented campaign will make it perform like one.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
(Spielberg) tells the story slowly and films it with lucid, mesmerizing objectivity, creating a mood as layered, dissonant and strange as John Williams's unusually restrained. modernist score.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Actually, it's a childhood "A Clockwork Orange," a reverent realization of the late Stanley Kubrick's final obsession.
Time Richard Corliss
A.I. will beguile some viewers, perplex others. Its vision is too capacious, its narrative route too extended, the shift in tone (from suburban domestic to rural nightmare to urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Most of its features work fine, and it will dazzle you with its tricks and illusions. But it is not what it claims to be on the package.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Audiences may find that the deliberate, Kubrickesque pacing -- without his intellectual rigor -- causes them to tune out.
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
This is speculative, heady stuff, far removed from traditional Hollywood summer entertainment, which alone will earn A.I. a devoted following.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Be warned that the violence-prone Spielberg of "Saving Private Ryan" and "Schindler's List" is also on display.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
This is a movie to be knocked, chewed and gummed, but not dismissed. It's the first 2001 release I've rushed to see twice.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Audacious, technically masterful, challenging, sometimes moving, ceaselessly watchable. What holds it back from greatness is a failure to really engage the ideas that it introduces.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Spielberg has said that in their collaboration, cut short by Kubrick's death, Kubrick had opened his heart as never before. Although the fingerprint of each is upon A.I, there are times when the prints are blurred and merged. And this film will blur the hitherto distinctive profiles of each.
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The skill involved holds us in our seats, the project's inability to transcend its built-in limitations keep it from achieving the kind of overarching impact it is after.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
For everything wrong with it, A.I. is not a dismissible film. It's too richly imagined, too accomplished. Even as he botches the emotions and the issues he raises, Spielberg goes headlong into them, wrestles with the picture's conflicting impulses. It's the kind of screw-up you get only from a master filmmaker.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Whether audiences are pleased or vexed, very vexed, by A.I., any movie buff worth his salt will want to sift through this fascinating wreck of a movie.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
A fascinating but flawed work that demonstrates that, contrary to popular wisdom, great minds do not think alike.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
It's one of the weirdest achievements in film history: Temperamentally, Spielberg and Kubrick are such polar opposites that A.I. has the moment-to-moment effect of being completely at odds with itself.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not credited)
A slickly crafted fable, however dark, but it's shot with haunting poetry.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
What's a shock is the crudeness with which Spielberg fills the scenario in -- how he neuters his protagonist and short-circuits the inner workings of his human characters.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Intriguing, inspired, flawed, misbegotten and fascinating -- all of these qualities apply to the movie, at one point or another.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The result is fascinating, if uneven and ultimately rather silly. Problems with the ending, so common these days, dog this visionary film as well.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Robert Wilonsky
It's by turns poignant and cold, twisted and sweet, dreamy and drab, effortless and overwrought. In short, the movie is a stunning, ambitious mess that leaves you wondering how much better it might have been without Kubrick's specter peering over Spielberg's heavy shoulders.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Manohla Dargis
Spielberg's infidelity to Aldiss (and perhaps to Kubrick, who knows?) would be pardonable if it didn't ruin his movie. In the end, he has failed to make a persuasive, smart movie about robots and people.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
What we're left with -- Kubrick or no -- is a muddled, messy disaster of a film, something that seems more like a drastically edited miniseries, cut down to incomprehensible levels with whole sections missing.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Ends up neither fish nor fowl. It's a misanthrope's "E.T."
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A grim disappointment for grown-ups, and far too violent for young kids. I found it to be clumsy, misanthropic and intractably lifeless.
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
By the end A.I. exhibits all its creators' bad traits and none of the good. So we end up with the structureless, meandering, slow-motion endlessness of Kubrick combined with the fuzzy, cuddly mindlessness of Spielberg.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 208 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jim T gave it a10:
The film gets this rating simply because it tackles a subject much deeper than 98% of the dreck in theatres now. The fact that it is flawed, probably because it was conceived and executed by two genius filmmakers, only creates a tension that adds to the rating. Utterly fascinating.
Jordan K gave it an8:
The movie has all the grand, adventurous, frightening, intelligent, and quirky aspects you'd expect from the Kubrick-Speilberg collaboration. While its occasionally knocked for its almost act-by-act feel, the film succeeds to explore the world they created with it. Excellent and engaging, although the forced cathartic ending is forgettable at best, and somewhat takes away from the experience.
Edward R. gave it a1:
I was very young when I watched this film. I don't remember it very well, which makes me happy. I remember that I didn't care about any of the characters, how self-indulgent the film was, and most of all how the film went on, and on, and on, and on. And then on some more. I actually started crying because I was really desperate for the film to end (not because of the 'emotion' of the film, but because I was bored) around where [massive spoiler] the aliens turn up and bring the robot's mother back for a moment or too. Well, I was in tears, shame about my reasons. I gave it a one rather than a zero because there is some good ideas and passable acting, but really, I *hated* this film. It should be locked in a cupboard so it can make love to itself in peace. (I should point out that being a small child at the time, I may not of had the best perspective on the film, though I stand by my opinion stubbornly, because I was a pretty smart kid).
Koloman R. gave it a10:
Who knew sentimentality could be lifted to such artistic heights? Kubrick was spot on in his choice of director. This film is an unqualified masterpiece.
Josh R. gave it a10:
An underrated masterpiece from one of the greatest directors of our time.
Josh V gave it a10:
This movie is amazing and flawless the people who gave this a bad review are shallow and have no back up for their reasons, this is the most underrated movie of this decade.
Sebastian L. gave it an8:
Discount the number. As another critic leaned, this piece is not a movie as much as a rumination; as such, it might be one of the most difficult movies of all time to judge on a quantified scale. For those who decry the ending as overly sappy, perhaps you should try analyzing it. Yes, it's a statement about the human mystery of faith and the power of love to generate (real) life; but it's made in the depts of a frozen sea over two thousand years of loneliness and ice. A Slumdog Millionaire bow, this isn't.
