A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

PG-13

Released Jun 29, 2001

2 hr. 25 min.

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Drama

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A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards) and his wife (Frances O'Connor). Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

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Critics Consensus

A curious, not always seamless, amalgamation of Kubrick's chilly bleakness and Spielberg's warm-hearted optimism, A.I. is, in a word, fascinating.

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Debbra H

It is a captivating movie and like a lot of good science fiction ahead of its time. Both politically strong and a wonderful metaphor for the archetypal orphan child. Highly recommend

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/10/24

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Jade G

This movie 🍿 is a favourite of mine from the first time I ever saw it, seems underrated to me. Maybe it could have been done better. I challenge anyone to try, but don't bother without the voice of Robin Williams.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/28/24

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Niccolo N

It might as well be too optimistic for Kubrick, but yet another time Spielberg crafts another compelling picture.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/22/24

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ted t

I really really wanted to love this movie. The concepts here are excellent and worth exploring but the film never goes there in terms of exploring them in a meaningful way or with any depth. This also felt characterless in terms of the visuals. I think the take away is that Spielberg is not Kubrick, they are two very different filmmakers. I don't think Spielberg's style of film making works for this story. Kubrick had the ability to take such simple concepts and really flesh them out with sound and visual in a way that is unparalleled.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/02/24

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Jalile A

I'd purposefully avoided this for the last 22 years specifically because everything about it seemed custom-designed to repel me: an existential horror about kids, with endless amount of uncanny valley stuff? It was easy to pass on it 'til now, and it looks like my gut instincts were correct. Only part of the problem is that you can really get the very real sense of its two directors' visions and styles clashing somewhere in the guts of this thing. There's the bleak technical darkness of Kubrick floating about, and there's Spielberg's populist version of that approach, and this feels like a messy mash-up of the two.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/01/24

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Anthony S

Perfect casting of HJO and his robotic charisma. Painfully dull and laughably silly when it tried to get deep with its existential crisis that's been done way better before . Really just a poor man ‘s slightly less creepy Bicentennial Man. The ending is silly and gross, which is fitting for this terrible movie

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/31/23

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Steven Spielberg

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Haley Joel Osment

David

Jude Law

Gigolo Joe

Frances O'Connor

Monica Swinton

Brendan Gleeson

Lord Johnson-Johnson

Sam Robards

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

Spielberg’s future world is densely detailed and, although the film is tonally inconsistent, this remains one of the director’s most interesting and underrated works.

Jul 3, 2023

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William Goss

Film.com

A confined domestic drama, a considerable morality tale, a fleeting futuristic noir, a persecution parable, an on-the-nose fairy tale adventure... and then it keeps going.

Apr 21, 2011

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Provocative movie suitable for teens.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 2, 2010

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Sarah Cortinaz

InSession Film

A.I. isn't without a few hiccups, but in my opinion, is severely underrated when it comes to Spielberg's credits as a director.

Rated: A-

Apr 23, 2024

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Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

"stage[s] the mechanical artifices of cinema itself, which gets us to gaze upon its blank projected icons and elicits a response merely reflecting our own humanity.

Jun 25, 2023

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

... a dark, visionary fairy tale. Call it a cyberpunk 'Pinocchio' with a robot boy who wants to be human despite the cruelty and hate he finds on his odyssey.

Apr 14, 2023

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Synopsis

A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards) and his wife (Frances O'Connor). Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Executive Producer: Walter F. Parkes, Jan Harlan
Screenwriter: Ian Watson, Brian Aldiss, Steven Spielberg
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Stanley Kubrick Productions, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks SKG, Amblin Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Violent Images|Some Sexual Content)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 29, 2001, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 26, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $78.6M
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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