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By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 10 Apr 2016

With its breathtaking photography and a still-unparalleled sense of wonder, the film demonstrated Kubrick's single-minded focus to inspire…

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By Kathleen Carroll (45) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 02 Apr 2016

Kubrick leaves himself wide open to ridicule from the minute he picks up Dr…

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By Scott Nash (692) for Three Movie Buffs (692) on 30 Mar 2016

A visual masterpiece, weakened by a glacial pace and an ambiguous ending…

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By Alexander Walker (51) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 16 Feb 2016

I shall go and see it again as soon as possible, for one thing is clear. Man has shrunk space, but Kubrick has expanded the cinema…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 01 Dec 2014

Kubrick's spaceships are perhaps little more than Airfix models, but he makes them majestic, even awesome in the proper sense of the word…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 29 Nov 2014

It’s an overpowering experience, awe-inspiringly photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth, groundbreakingly enhanced by Douglas Trumbull…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 28 Nov 2014

Top marks for craftsmanship is an understatement…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 27 Nov 2014

Something in its mandarin blankness and balletic vastness, and refusal to trade in the emollient dramatic forms of human interest and human…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 18 Nov 2014

Notoriously baffling yet oddly compelling…

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By John Mahoney (12) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 09 Nov 2014

It is, as promised, a majestic visual experience, quite unlike any film we have ever seen...These details are merely a means employed by Kubrick…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 19 May 2014

Extraordinary filmmaking, creating intellectual arguments mostly through image and music…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Apr 2014

A masterpiece that can still leave you dizzy with wonder…

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By Sue Heal (12) for Radio Times (2,421) on 31 Mar 2014

It's a must-see if you never have, even though its visual impact is seriously hampered by the small screen…

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By Tom Milne (86) for Guardian (4,584) on 31 Mar 2014

[2001] might be best described as a factual philosophical speculation, rather than as the drama it sets out as but never develops into: and…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 07 Sep 2013

reaches for the stars and finds itself, against all odds, on the other side of them…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 19 Jun 2013

Only a few films are transcendent, and work upon our minds and imaginations like music or prayer or a vast belittling landscape...Alone among…

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By Penelope Gilliatt (8) for New Yorker (1,403) on 14 Jan 2013

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is some sort of great film, and an unforgettable endeavor…

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By Brian Gibson (578) for Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) (665) on 12 Jan 2012

Matched Kubrick's photographic eye to a story about watching, transformed him into a director of the epic, and made one giant leap in sci-fi…

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By Thomas Caldwell (278) for Cinema Autopsy (278) on 02 Jun 2011

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest films of all time and it is the director's most profound and confounding exploration…

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By Phil Hall (302) for Film Snobbery (19) on 15 Sep 2010

Perhaps the beauty of 2001 is appreciating that some of the best stories are the ones that are half-told…

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