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Things to Come

The future is here!

1936 · 1h 40m · Not Rated Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by William Cameron Menzies

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Overview

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

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All reviews
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Things to Come is an unusual picture, a fantasy, if you will, with overtones of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips. But it is, as well, a picture with ideas which have been expressed dramatically and with visual fascination.

Frank S. Nugent, New York Times
Fresh

In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

[An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936.

Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Rotten

This is England's first $1 million picture. It's an impressive but dull exposition of a bad dream.

Variety

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