2073
Neon | Release Date: December 27, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJan 7, 2025
It’s a tricky balance, and one that the film doesn’t always quite pull off, between sounding a warning and screaming with existential terror; between galvanising the audience into action and plunging them into despair. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
2073 is certainly a relevant shout of rage against the authoritarian forces despoiling our democracy and our environment – and the bland and complaisant naivety that’s letting it happen. Read full review
60
Screen DailyLee Marshall
Does the alternation between documentary inserts and sci-fi superstructure work? Not always – more than once it’s a wrench to be dragged back to Ghost’s basement. But Kapadia and his co-scribe Tony Grisoni seem to understand that the pummelled audience can take only so much cinematic doomscrolling. Read full review
50
The Film StageLuke Hicks
The documentary elements are fantastic; then we have to return to 2073, a time and place that simply lacks the story, conception, cinematography, and funding needed to make it work. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherJan 3, 2025
The problem with this is that it howls at everything and nothing, while also using the kind of conspiracy theorising about sinister global cabals that’s more suited to foam-flecked podcasters and Elders of Zion loonies. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie Collin
The conceit of a film as a warning from the future is a promising one, but 2073 feels more like political signalling for the present. Read full review
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