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A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (BBC)

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Original title

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Year

2001

Running time

146 min.

Country

United States

Director

Steven Spielberg

Screenwriter

Steven Spielberg, Ian Watson. Story: Brian Aldiss

Cast

Music

John Williams

Cinematography

Janusz Kaminski

Producer

Warner Bros., DreamWorks SKG, Amblin Entertainment, Stanley Kubrick Production

Genre

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Drama | Robots. Artificial Intelligence

Synopsis

Sometime in the future of the 21st century, in a time when the Greenhouse Effect has melted the icecaps, submerging many of the coastal cities in water, mankind depends upon computers with artificial intelligence to maintain our way of life. Man has also found new friends in A.I., in the form of robots that are used for a variety of functions. This story is about a boy robot, and the emotional journey he makes toward becoming something more.

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Awards: 2001: 2 Nominations for Oscar: Best Original Soundtrack, Visual Effects

2001: 3 Nominations for Golden Globe: Best Director, OST, Supporting Actor (Jude Law)

2001: Nomination BAFTA: Best Visual Effects

2001: Venice Film Festival: Award Future Film Festival Digital (Out of Competition)

2001: Nomination Critics' Choice Awards: Best Young Actor/Actress (Haley Joel Osment)

2001: Chicago Film Critics Awards: 3 Nominations, incl. Best Supporting Actor (Law)

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Critics' reviews

"A movie both wonderful and maddening (...) "A.I." is audacious, technically masterful, challenging, sometimes moving, ceaselessly watchable (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Its heart is in the right place. But the intelligence behind the rest of the movie is, well, a little too artificial"

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post
"The best fairy tale - the most disturbing, complex and intellectually challenging boy's adventure story - Mr. Spielberg has made"

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"'A.I' is the child of HAL and E.T (...) Deeply thoughtful and thoroughly fascinating"

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"Fascinating, if uneven and ultimately rather silly"

Stephen Hunter: The Washington Post
"It's not the film's obvious flaws that linger, but the delicacy of its virtues (...) One of the defining films of its time"

Keith Phipps: AV Club
"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"

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
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2 Underrated Movies (193)
15 My Top 10 Movies from 2001 (282)
29 My Favorite Sci-Fi Films (460)
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74 Movies with Awesome Special Effects (26)
75 Most Moving Movies (60)
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