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72
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84
Critics' score based on 38 reviews.
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The performances are crucial, because all of these characters have so completely internalized their world that they make it palpable, and themselves utterly convincing.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

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.Full Review

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

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.Full Review

Dana Stevens
Slate

It's a heartbreaking, bullet-strewn valentine to what keeps us human.Full Review

Keith Phipps
The Onion (A.V. Club)

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 decayFull Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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