Rotten
A painless, bloodless, and ultimately pointless futuristic fantasy.
Andrew Sarris, Village Voice
A Clockwork Orange
Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.
1971 · 2h 17m · R
Crime, Science Fiction
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
Overview
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Kubrick's contributions are his wit and his eye. The wit, too much at times, is as biting as in Dr. Strangelove, and the production, while of another order, is as spectacular as in 2001.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Stanley Kubrick's latest film takes the heavy realities of the 'do-your-thing' and 'law-and-order' syndromes, runs them through a cinematic centrifuge, and spews forth the commingled comic horrors of a regulated society.
A.D. Murphy, Variety
Rotten
A very bad film -- snide, barely competent, and overdrawn -- that enjoys a perennial popularity, perhaps because its confused moral position appeals to the secret Nietzscheans within us.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
A Clockwork Orange is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading as an Orwellian warning.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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