Fresh
2001 lingers on the mind like a tall, black riddle: Where are the new bones, the new tools, that will take us higher? Do we even deserve them?
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
2001: A Space Odyssey
An epic drama of adventure and exploration.
1968 · 2h 29m · G
Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
Overview
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Director and cast
- Stanley Kubrick Director
- Keir Dullea as Dr. Dave Bowman
- Gary Lockwood as Dr. Frank Poole
- William Sylvester as Dr. Heywood Floyd
- Douglas Rain as HAL 9000 (voice)
- Daniel Richter as Moon-Watcher
- Leonard Rossiter as Dr. Andrei Smyslov
- Margaret Tyzack as Elena
- Robert Beatty Cast
- Sean Sullivan Cast
- Frank Miller Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is some sort of great film, and an unforgettable endeavor. Technically and imaginatively, what he put into it is staggering.
Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker
Fresh
The film's projections of the cold war and antiquated product placements may look quaint now, but the poetry is as hard-edged and full of wonder as ever.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It was a freshening attitude then, though its long-term effects haven't been all to the good.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
For all the essential coldness of Kubrick's vision, it demands attention as superior sci-fi, simply because it's more concerned with ideas than with Boy's Own-style pyrotechnics.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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