Children of Men
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- Synopsis
- Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón returns to the helm to tell this futuristic tale in which society is without hope since humankind lost its ability to procreate....
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- Director(s)
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Distributor(s)
- Universal
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 109 min.
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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
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