Architecton

Name: Architecton
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 1, 2025
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 79

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A24 | Release Date: August 1, 2025 | G

Summary: An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete, and its ancestor, stone.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: G

Runtime: 98 min

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Guy Lodge

Jun 5, 2025

Whether gazing in rapt widescreen across wondrous ancient structures, ruined recent cityscapes or the oceanic shift and shake of a stone quarry in action, this is blatantly dazzling, epic-scale filmmaking that nonetheless invites viewers to consider the implications of our awe. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Jun 5, 2025

The main thing with a rousing cinematic experience like Architecton is that it wins the emotional argument. Read full review

John Anderson

Dec 8, 2025

There is an implicit story within—about the ancients building with marble for eternity and us moderns building with concrete for a virtual moment. But it isn’t just beauty Mr. Kossakovsky is concerned with here. It is how humans view their world and, more importantly, themselves. And their place in the universe. And their disposable landscape. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Jul 29, 2025

Architecton acknowledges that everything we do is fleeting. There’s meaning in that. But it also posits that putting thought and respect into our temporary, tiny changes to Earth—laying fertile foundations that can roll with the punches that will always come—has a higher virtue. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Jul 31, 2025

Architecton is as gorgeous as it is grave. The score (by Evgueni Galperine) and sound design (by Aleksandr Dudarev) contribute mightily to the film’s heavy lifting. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Jul 27, 2025

Architecton is a gorgeously photographed poetic reverie on the subject of stone and concrete, permanence and profligate waste. Read full review

David Jenkins

Jan 21, 2025

The film’s thesis is often a little obvious, yearning for a return to a brand of architecture whose half-life isn’t so slim, but ignoring the arduous and exploitative construction methods that were used to produce those grandiose structures of yore. Read full review

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