Critic Reviews
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Los Angeles Times
A dazzlingly imaginative work with awesome production values and special effects that bear comparison to those of "2001."
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Chicago Tribune
An amazing celluloid poem by a filmmaker whom Ingmar Bergman called "the greatest." He very nearly was. He was also, perhaps, too pure a creator and reckless a citizen to survive unscathed.
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Christian Science Monitor
Stands with the greatest science-fiction movies ever made.
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Washington Post
His (Tarkovsky's) pictures, and his sounds -- such as the symphonic drip of raindrops in a wooded pond -- tell more than just the immediate story; they rejuvenate the mind.
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Chicago Reader
Tarkovsky's eerie mystic parable is given substance by the filmmaker's boldly original grasp of film language and the remarkable performances by all the principals.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Routinely called Tarkovsky's reply to Kubrick's "2001" -- But Kubrick's film is outward, charting man's next step in the universe, while Tarkovsky's is inward, asking about the nature and reality of the human personality.
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| 80 |
TV Guide
Staff (Not Credited)
Slow, but ravishingly beautiful and charged with a real poignancy.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
The most pop film the great Russian filmmaker ever made.
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