Children of Men Critic Reviews

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

An exhilarating sci-fi action thriller with a powerful social and political message.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

Picture more than delivers on the action front -- not in bang-for-your-buck spectacle but in the kind of gritty, doculike sequences that haul viewers out of their seats and alongside the main protags.Read the full review

Although imperfect, it's engaging, thought-provoking stuff.Read the full review

Bloated adaptation of P.D. James's thoughtful, compact novel.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

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