2073

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2073

Released Dec 27, 2024

1h 23m

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Mystery & Thriller

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It's the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown, Minority Report) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past--a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today's global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

Through [Morton], Kapadia audits the morbid symptoms he argues are taking us there: climate breakdown fueled by what journalist Anne Applebaum calls a global "democracy recession" and the influence of tech leaders set on leaving the planet altogether.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 15, 2025

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Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

This blurring of real life and dystopia is fascinating, especially in a film that tends to draw a hard line between its two segments: nonfiction, based on interviews, and science fiction, stacked with genre tropes.

Jan 7, 2025

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

It’s a tricky balance, and one that the film doesn’t always quite pull off, between sounding a warning and screaming with existential terror; between galvanising the audience into action and plunging them into despair.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 6, 2025

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

It wasn't until this movie showed me how these elections fit into the context of political developments in the rest of the world that I really felt just how fast we are headed toward oligarchy. This is the scariest movie I've ever seen.

Rated: A

Jan 17, 2025

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William Stottor

Movie Marker

2073, the latest film from documentarian Asif Kapadia, is an odd film containing a strange, slightly bemusing fusion of styles.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 13, 2025

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Alistair Harkness

Scotsman

Sadly it backfires because of how dull, illogical and cliché-ridden the sci-fi parts are.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 3, 2025

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William C

If you follow the news half the movie is news you already know about and the other half is a boring sci-fi

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/25

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Danielle B

This is an extremely important and timely film that everyone should watch. Although terrifying, it helps makes sense of this incomprehensible time we're living in and draws on many wise voices of our time. Grateful to director Kapadia and his crew for making it - thank you!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/25

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chip a

Le bad cinema. My Uncle Rickie could make a better film.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/25

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Andrew B

The potential of this concept is completely squandered by the repetitive, aimless, and uneventful "movie" half of this film. I understand the challenge of having to tell a story in essentially half the time a normal movie would get, but NOTHING happens to the nameless, voiceless character until the very end and it is far from satisfactory.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/17/25

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Pamela S

This is one of the best Movies/documentary I have ever seen. It shows real life clips and this is the age we’re living in. This will happen if we stay on the spiraling downfall. We are all stuck on this planet, so we better start respecting it but when the rich and the corporations just care about profit, the planet gets trashed turn on the news. The planet is on fire. I never believed in the end of times, but it looks as though we are on fast track for it. Just as they have always said the rich get richer and the poor get poor. As they always have why every day people work their fingers to the bone and have just enough to survive. Wake up world not just America the whole world. It’s sad to see professional critics. Give it such a negative review when all of it is true. The US is now for the rich and the corporations. It’s not for the people by the people any longer, and it hasn’t been in my lifetime. Before you know it, we won’t be able to say what we want to any longer. They’re shutting down all kinds of trusted news sources. Watch and see.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/25

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Brian H

Poor reviews due to TOO MUCH TRUTH!!!! Our society is headed in this direction if something does not change😞

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/15/25

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It's the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown, Minority Report) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past--a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today's global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.

Director: Asif Kapadia
Producer: Asif Kapadia, George Chignell
Screenwriter: Asif Kapadia, Tony Grisoni, Tony Grisoni
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Sheep Thief Films, Film4, Lafcadia Productions, Neon, Double Agent
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 27, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 7, 2025
Runtime: 1h 23m

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