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Automatons
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Automatons reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 43 Metascore out of 100
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, Brenda Cooney, Noah DeFilippis, Don Wood, and Jennifer Boutell

A low-tech effects film about the horrors of war and robots. (Glass Eye Pix)


GENRE(S): Horror  
WRITTEN BY: James Felix McKenney  
DIRECTED BY: James Felix McKenney  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: December 13, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 83 minutes, B/W 
ORIGIN: USA 

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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
More violent than anything Wood ever did, Automatons nevertheless has the kitschy feel and look of something he might have concocted. And I mean that as a compliment.
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63
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The acting is flat, and the scientist's ideological speeches too bluntly designed to mirror post-9/11 rhetoric. But there's a dreamy fascination to the iconic images of machines fighting a perpetual war for the human creators they'll inevitably outlast.
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60
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Automatons is driven less by its hints of suicide bombers than by its rigorous adherence to a time when robots were played by inverted dustbins and battles were represented by dots converging on a crackling screen. This lack of sophistication is enormously endearing, leaving us with the comforting notion that the end of the world will look a lot like the beginning of television.
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38
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
A mild and static attempt at sincere camp.
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30
Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
With its hypnotic pacing, blatantly nonsynchronous sound, clunky robot costumes, and graphic but unconvincing violence, the movie falls flatly between camp and art-house pretension.
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30
Variety Joe Leydon
An unwieldy mix of self-conscious camp and heavy-handed allegory, Automatons plays like a cheesy '50s no-budget sci-fier with serious delusions of grandeur.
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30
Village Voice Nathan Lee
Automatons is what happens when "Eraserhead" and "Tetsuo the Iron Man" bong themselves into oblivion and collaborate on a minimalist avant-garde sci-fi cheapie shot in a toolshed.
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