2073

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2073

Released Dec 27, 2024

1h 23m

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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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Rebecca Harrison

Sight & Sound

While there’s much to admire in its form, 2073 leaves the viewer with the overwhelming sense that we’ve already run out of road.

Feb 22, 2025

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

I don't buy any of it. If you want to make a documentary, make a documentary.

Feb 11, 2025

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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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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

The trouble with 2073 is that not only does it employ an unwieldy gimmick as its foundation but it places it in the service of a “preaching to the choir” piece.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 17, 2025

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Glenn Dunks

Glenn Dunks

Doomscrolling: The Movie.

Apr 14, 2025

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John Serba

Decider

2073 doesn’t rise above the level of “interesting” in its narrative and visual approach – and its bleakness is likely to drag you into despair.

Apr 10, 2025

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Evan E

A very bold film that creates a feasible dystopian future and actually goes so far as to use real world companies and people within the setting. It overtly challenges alot of modern American pride and prejudices with some rather raw displays and dialogue. Moreover, it calls to attention specific companies and people that are vastly changing American society and governance as we know it; all while speculating where it might lead us accordingly. I personally found this film very refreshing and I'm also under the impression that no one in America could make a film like this currently without some major backlash. Therefore, I find it art as not everyone will enjoy it; however I feel it accurately gives a perspective of America and Americans from the outside looking in. All of which ought to make us more cognizant of the constitution and the foundations of what allowed America to thrive when empires repressed the world... Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness for ALL peoples!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/19/25

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Rob M

2073 is a catastrophically bad film that somehow fails at every level. The plot is incoherent gibberish, the dialogue sounds like it was written by a chatbot with a concussion, and the acting is so lifeless it feels like watching mannequins read cue cards. Visually, it’s a cheap, glitchy mess like a bad video game cutscene stretched over two agonizing hours. The soundtrack? A relentless, droning synth nightmare that assaults your ears. 2073 isn’t just boring it’s actively insulting. If this is the future, please erase it. This movie shouldn’t be watched. It should be buried in a lead box forever.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/19/25

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Bill W

This movie was a dystopian montage of flashbacks that culminates into the year 2073 where the U.S. is an authoritarian state. Not much different than where we are right now.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/17/25

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Alex T

It’s a political ad against the right. That’s it that’s the movie

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/17/25

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Mark R

Propoganda nonsense. Zero Stars.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/17/25

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Connie M

What a dreadful, unoriginal, propagandistic trudge — Asif Kapadia uses spliced news shots all supposedly in San Francisco. Once he started in to the ‘hate anyone to the right of Che Guevara’ I had to stop. Dreck.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/16/25

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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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