Children of Men Critic Reviews

The performances are crucial, because all of these characters have so completely internalized their world that they make it palpable, and themselves utterly convincing.Read the full review

Working with his longtime cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki, Cuaron creates the most deeply imagined and fully realized world to be seen on screen this year, not to mention bravura sequences that bring to mind names like Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick.Read the full review

I don't just mean it's one of the best movies of the past six years. Children of Men, based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James, is the movie of the millennium because it's about our millennium, with its fractured, fearful politics and random bursts of violence and terror.Read the full review

It's a heartbreaking, bullet-strewn valentine to what keeps us human.Read the full review

Made with palpable energy, intensity and excitement, it compellingly creates a world gone mad that is uncomfortably close to the one we live in. It is a "Blade Runner" for the 21st century, a worthy successor to that epic of dystopian decayRead the full review

This is an extraordinary artistic breakthrough from a Mexican director who was already fearlessly good to begin with.Read the full review

Children of Men may be something of a bummer, but it’s the kind of glorious bummer that lifts you to the rafters, transporting you with the greatness of its filmmaking.Read the full review

Children of Men is Cuarón's run for freedom, with a riveting story, fantastic action scenes and acting so universally solid that even the dogs perform masterfully under his direction.Read the full review

It's a work of art that deserves a space cleared for its angry, nervous beauty.Read the full review