1984
Atlantic Releasing Corporation | Release Date: March 22, 1985 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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60
EmpireIan Nathan
A solidly made, sternly acted, and faithful realisation of the distopian novel. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
The performances in the film are excellent, and its look is entirely appropriate and mesmerizing--but only for a while. The film's basic flaw is that it's just too painful, too depressing, and too slow to watch. Read full review
60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The look of the film certainly achieves the right rubble-strewn, monochrome period feel with precision and genuinely cinematic scope. Perhaps the greatest hurdle cleared, however, is the problem of incident. Radford's achievement is to have incorporated the impossible preaching and crazed ideas into the fabric with hardly any loose threads. The locations look very like modern Britain; and Burton at last found the one serious role for which he searched all his life. Read full review
60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
In this unremitting downer, writer-director Michael Radford introduces no touches of comedy or facile sensationalism to soften a harsh depiction of life under a totalitarian system as imagined by George Orwell in 1948. Read full review
50
Washington PostPaul Attanasio
The movie stands simply as an artful adaptation, and not an altogether engaging one. The repeated scenes of the rallying mob, chanting and howling at Big Brother on the screen, soon grow tiresome; like everything about 1984, they seem redundant. Read full review
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