Transcendence
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: April 17, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
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Mixed or average reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
27
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 17, 2014
Transcendence is a bold, beautiful, sometimes confounding flight of futuristic speculation firmly rooted in the potential of today’s technology. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranApr 17, 2014
An ambitious and provocative piece of work that is intriguingly balanced between being a warning and a celebration. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 17, 2014
Transcendence is a dark, lurchingly entertaining pastiche of age-old worries, future-shock jolts, hot-button topics and old-fashioned genre thrills. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 18, 2014
Moderately entertaining, periodically draggy, Transcendence is not as wacky-visionary as “The Matrix,” or nearly as lyrical as “Her.” Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnApr 16, 2014
While never as dynamically involving as Christopher Nolan's "Inception," for which longtime Nolan director of photography Pfister justifiably won an Oscar, Transcendence still grapples with provocative existential concepts in similarly thoughtful terms. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaApr 18, 2014
Echoing the lessons learned from "HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey," the message of Transcendence is that computers should not be allowed to become sentient. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyApr 18, 2014
Apart from Mychael Danna’s portentous orchestral and electronic score, Transcendence simply lacks oomph: Shots don’t overwhelm, scenes don’t pop and nothing on the screen gets under your skin. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzApr 17, 2014
The most galling thing about Transcendence, though, isn't its inability to get a handle on what, if anything, it wants to say about the enormous changes happening to the human race, it's the movie's ending, which seems calculated to reassure us that everything's going to be fine as long as the right people are in charge, especially if they're good looking. Read full review
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