A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: June 29, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)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
60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not credited)
A slickly crafted fable, however dark, but it's shot with haunting poetry. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen 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
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Intriguing, inspired, flawed, misbegotten and fascinating -- all of these qualities apply to the movie, at one point or another. Read full review
50
SlateDavid 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
50
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
40
Austin ChronicleMarc 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
40
L.A. WeeklyManohla 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
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