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A.I.
From Metacritic
Pure magic, a three-act movie fantasy
that transports us -- as the best films do -- to a world
of its own, a place of ambiguous joy and delirious terror.
-Chicago Tribune, Michael
Wilmington:
The
movie is exactly what it's billed to be: the successful
blending of two distinctly different filmmaking sensibilities
from two different generations. But the stronger, and more
pessimistic, sensibility -- Kubrick's -- carries the day.
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer, William
Arnold:
(Spielberg)
tells the story slowly and films it with lucid, mesmerizing
objectivity, creating a mood as layered, dissonant and
strange as John Williams's unusually restrained. modernist
score.
-New York Times, A.O.
Scott:
This
is not "E.T.," nor is it a kid's film nor even
necessarily a major mass-audience film, although Spielberg's
name, high public anticipation and the child-oriented campaign
will make it perform like one.
-Variety, Todd
McCarthy:
The
result is fascinating -- a rich, strange, problematical
movie full of wild tonal shifts and bravura moviemaking.
-Newsweek, David
Ansen:
There
aren't many at all like Spielberg and Kubrick, directors
willing to lasso dreams (that's Steven) and nightmares
(that's Stanley) or die trying. A.I. is a clash of the
titans, a jumble, an oedipal drama, a carny act. I want
to see it again.
-Entertainment Weekly, Lisa
Schwarzbaum:
Spielberg
has said that in their collaboration, cut short by Kubrick's
death, Kubrick had opened his heart as never before. Although
the fingerprint of each is upon A.I, there are times when
the prints are blurred and merged. And this film will blur
the hitherto distinctive profiles of each.
-Boston Globe, Jay
Carr:
This
is speculative, heady stuff, far removed from traditional
Hollywood summer entertainment, which alone will earn A.I.
a devoted following.
-Miami Herald, Rene
Rodriguez:
Audacious,
technically masterful, challenging, sometimes moving, ceaselessly
watchable. What holds it back from greatness is a failure
to really engage the ideas that it introduces.
-Chicago Sun-Times, Roger
Ebert:
This
is a movie to be knocked, chewed and gummed, but not dismissed.
It's the first 2001 release I've rushed to see twice.
-USA Today, Mike
Clark:
Audiences may find that the deliberate,
Kubrickesque pacing -- without his intellectual rigor --
causes them to tune out.
-New York Post, Jonathan
Foreman:
From the A.I.
Oscar Ads
"A.I.',
Artificial Intelligence is pure magic. This genuinely spellbinding
fairytale touches
chords both dissonant and spellbinding...and it's a triumph
for 12 year-old start actor Haley Joel Osment who beautifully
carries the fantasy on his shoulders."
-Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"A.I.'
is a courageous film. The story is told so well, and with
such unwavering conviction
in its performances, that it ends up being an overwhelmingly
haunting experience as well as an exquisite work of art."
-Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer
"It's
the summation of one great director's genius by means of
the proxy skills of another
great filmmaker's imagination. A film whose deceptive simplicities,
manifold inventions, technical wonderments and fabulous mystification
are without parallel in contemporary cinema."
-Alexander Walker, London Evening Standard
From Rotten
Tomatoes
"Fascinating,
frustrating, absorbing and exhilarating, A.I. is one for
the ages, a transcendent movie that achieves the level
of art."
- Glenn
Whipp, DAILY
NEWS LOS ANGELES
"A.I.
exhilarates, frustrates and provokes: it's the most ambitious
Hollywood movie in sight."
- David
Ansen, NEWSWEEK
"A
posthumously completed step for Kubrick and a step forward
for Spielberg."
- Jay
Carr, BOSTON GLOBE
"A
movie to be knocked, chewed and gummed, but not dismissed."
- Mike
Clark, USA TODAY
"Spielberg
laid the burden of the film on Osment like a backpack,
and the young trouper carries it."
- Richard
Corliss, TIME
MAGAZINE
"A
movie both wonderful and maddening."
- Roger
Ebert, CHICAGO
SUN-TIMES
"The
combination of genres -- science fiction with fairy tale
-- often triumphs but sometimes misfires."
- Jonathan
Foreman, NEW
YORK POST
"A
seething psychological bonanza."
- J.
Hoberman, VILLAGE
VOICE
"Never
less than fascinating."
- Kirk
Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD
REPORTER
"Deeply
thoughtful and thoroughly fascinating."
- Todd
McCarthy, VARIETY
"Technically
dazzling yet emotionally accessible to the inner child
in everyone from 9 to 90."
- Rex
Reed, NEW YORK
OBSERVER
"The
most controversial conversation-piece to hit the dumbed-down
American movie scene since heaven knows when."
- Andrew
Sarris, NEW YORK
OBSERVER
"A.I.
is a clash of the titans, a jumble, an oedipal drama, a
carny act. I want to see it again."
- Lisa
Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT
WEEKLY
"The
best fairy tale -- the most disturbing, complex and intellectually
challenging boy's adventure story -- Mr. Spielberg has
made."
- A.O.
Scott, NEW YORK
TIMES
"You're
encouraged to ponder complex questions while enjoying an
amazing ride."
- Paul
Tatara, CNN
"A
not quite seamless, not completely satisfying but invariably
attention-grabbing combination of divergent themes, genres
and even story lines."
- Kenneth
Turan, LOS ANGELES
TIMES
"A
provocative, personal and intensely engaging picture made
with big-studio resources and technical magic."
- Michael
Wilmington, CHICAGO
TRIBUNE
"It's
astounding because, like so much of Kubrick's work, it
resurrects the sense of cinema as an ongoing emergency."
- John
Anderson, NEWSDAY
"A
scary, exhilarating, disturbing ride into the murkiest
celluloid tunnel of love ever filmed."
- Todd
Anthony, SOUTH
FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"A
film of style, substance and some subtle wit that dares
to ponder the future of the human species."
- William
Arnold, SEATTLE
POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Even
if you don't much care for the experience, A.I. will ...
plant ideas in your brain that can't be easily shaken loose."
- Robert
W. Butler, KANSAS
CITY STAR
""You'll
either love it or hate it.""
- Matt
Easterbrook, MATT'S
MOVIE REVIEWS
"A
mesmerizing journey into the very soul of what it means
to be human."
- Louis
B. Hobson, JAM!
MOVIES
"A
picture that entertains, touches the heart and digs below
the surface."
- JoBlo, JOBLO'S
MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Packed
with freaky, haunting, generally amazing images."
- Edward
Johnson-Ott, NUVO
NEWSWEEKLY
"The
ambition lends it nobility, and for once the awe-inspiring
visual effects serve the story rather than vice versa."
- Jim
Lane, SACRAMENTO
NEWS & REVIEW
"A
haunting and wondrous story about the thin and rapidly
blurring line between reality and illusion."
- Sean
Means, SALT LAKE
TRIBUNE
"I
didn't love it, but I haven't been able to stop thinking
about it, either."
- Mary
F. Pols, CONTRA
COSTA TIMES
"The
most puzzling, trippiest piece of pop fantasy of Spielberg's
career."
- Rene
Rodriguez, MIAMI
HERALD
However
you take it, the film works from an immensely challenging
and rewarding text."
- Susan
Stark, DETROIT
NEWS
"Takes
more chances than any recent movie -- especially those
of the science-fiction genre."
- Jeff
Vice, DESERET
NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"The
first really strange, risk-taking, Hollywood movie I've
seen in 2001."
- Dave
White, IFILM
"For
every moment it frustrates, there are a dozen that amaze
and provoke us, asking us questions about the meanings
of life and love."
- John
Zebrowski, SEATTLE
TIMES
"Haley
Joel Osment and Jude Law make this into a must-see experience."
- Jim
Chastain, NORMAN
TRANSCRIPT
"Spielberg
crafts a haunting opening and an elegantly ironic ending."
- Duane
Dudek, MILWAUKEE
JOURNAL SENTINEL
"A
gripping return to classic form for a director whose sense
of adventure has always been rooted in the mythology of
the suburban American family."
- Bryant
Frazer, BRYANT
FRAZER'S DEEP FOCUS
"A
master work that will haunt and inspire filmgoers for years
to come."
- Jack
Garner, ROCHESTER
DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
"The
real joy of the movie for me, and why I recommend it despite
everything, was watching Spielberg salute Kubrick, his
friend and mentor, while at the same time defy him."
- Peter
Howell, TORONTO
STAR
"Does
what truly great science fiction does, which is get you
to think about what it means to be human."
- MaryAnn
Johanson, FLICK
FILOSOPHER
"We
become truly human only when we can both give and receive
love: Also sprach Spielberg."
- Harvey
S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"Spielberg,
like his young hero, reaches beyond himself with this dark
but transcendent exploration of the fate of the human spirit."
- Kevin
Lally, FILM JOURNAL
INTERNATIONAL
"A
boldly challenging and abundantly rewarding masterwork."
- Joe
Leydon, SAN FRANCISCO
EXAMINER
"A
slickly crafted fable, however dark, but it's shot with
haunting poetry."
- Maitland
McDonagh, TV
GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"An
ambitious, complex, provocative movie."
- Nell
Minow, MOVIE
MOM
"A
film to see with friends. You'll want to talk about it
afterward."
-- Steve
Murray, ATLANTA
JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Filled
with endless imagination and wonder...sure to go down,
in time, as one of the brilliant achievements in modern
moviemaking."
- Dustin
Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"Kubrick
and Spielberg produced the perfect baby."
- Alex
Sandell, JUICY
CEREBELLUM
"A
spellbinding, challenging, and frustrating future-shock
epic."
- Tor
Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Too
engaging, too ambitious and too bizarre to dismiss."
- Robert
Wilonsky, NEW
TIMES LOS ANGELES
"During
this summer of replicants, it shines as an original work
of art."
- Philip
Wuntch, DALLAS
MORNING NEWS
Consider
A.I.
Written
for considerAI.com
"I
must find her, I must become real. There has to be someone
who knows where she lives." David, achieved by young protégé Haley
Joel Osment, articulates in an all encompassing scene of Steven
SpielbergÕs collaborative masterpiece, A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Given to him by his late mentor and friend Stanley Kubrick,
this film is not only a fairy tale journey, it is a tale of
hope and humanity fused together in a desolate, heartless world.
The story is of a young boy named David who is the first of
his kind; an artificial intelligence robot with the capability
of love, dreams, and desires. Resonating on all levels of the
human condition, A.I. not only offers us a new look into our
own spirit; it exposes the possibilities of this technology
and the moral ramifications of the power and authority that
come with it.
Rejected
by some, embraced by others, A.I. is one for the ages. Critics
and fans alike offer their praises to this film. Leading British
film magazine Empire exalts, ÒThis is not about the shadow
of Stanley Kubrick but the bright, burning light of Spielberg's
filmmaking genius. Difficult and challenging, it is also profound,
extraordinary and visually astounding. Tally it up and youÕve
got a very unusual masterpiece.Ó Across the Atlantic, Lisa
Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly hailed, ÒThere aren't many
at all like Spielberg and Kubrick, directors willing to lasso
dreams (that's Steven) and nightmares (that's Stanley) or die
trying. A.I. is a clash of the titans, a jumble, an oedipal
drama, a carny act. I want to see it again.Ó
Across
the globe, fans have grown to love and cherish A.I., more so
than any film in recent history. From Singapore to Scandinavia,
Europe to the Americas, the film has tugged at our soft spots,
only to rip us away from our comforts... transporting us into
the film itself. Covering such topics as love, friendship,
aspiration, and malice, A.I. has successfully risen to the
status of masterpiece entertaining and inspiring those of the
most unlikely character
"Consider
A.I.," written by Chris
Disher and Daniel
Bigler, special thanks to Michael
Talbot.
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