Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
Nineteen Eighty-Four has generally received positive reviews.
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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire (3,446) on 19 Jun 1990
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By Paul Attanasio (217) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 Apr 1993
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Nineteen Eighty-Four was released in 1984 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 10 reviews, giving Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) an average rating of 66%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 70%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 58%. Professional critics were more impressed with Nineteen Eighty-Four than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 66%, Nineteen Eighty-Four is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1984, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1984 with similar scores include films like Streets of Fire and Purple Rain.
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