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  Review by BRAT ★★★★ 6

  colin farrell's character introduces himself to tom cruise as "the twink from the Fed" #gayrights

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 7

  watched half of it again cause gabe had to finish it and am logging it again because there’s no rules on this site. send the future cops my way, i don’t give a fuck!!!

  wish i’d seen this in theaters because the moment of agatha screaming RUUUUUUN would’ve rocked my world as a 10 year old. “max von sydow” is the coolest name of any famous actor- unless you count uhhh Joe freaking Biden!!! aaaand post

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 9

  Steven Spielberg's been so good for so long we take him for granted. This one more than holds up as one of his very best -- and one of Cruise's best as well. I think might be his best performance.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 9

  I do not care for Spielberg's 2000s visual obsession with bloom and I wish this movie was more colorful to match the genuinely goofy/slapstick sensibility it has at times (the jetpack fight, the mr. magoo-ass blind sequence in the apartment, the eyeball stuff, etc) but this movie kicks ass. A sci-fi ACAB conspiracy thriller about free will and government surveillance? C'mon. Big dunk. Even in the future, cops are just horrid and fucking terrible at their jobs. Shocked it was produced just before 9/11 because it's so eerily prescient of the things we'd all lose to 9/11 that you'd think it was part of his later trilogy of 9/11 films. Totally forgot Tim Blake Nelson was in this, what a…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 1

  Loaded with Hitchcock references but especially to FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, and with more than just the umbrella gag. The chases have the same goofy relish, too (the jetpack hamburger gag here might as well be the old guy trying to cross the street during the car chase in CORRESPONDENT). Hitchcock's film urged the U.S. to enter the war a year before Pearl Harbor, Spielberg's warned of a society willing to give up a few civil rights for possibly illusory safety not even a year after 9/11.

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  Review by Bryan Espitia ★★★★½ 3

  I like that there's a whole little side plot about how good Tom Cruise can run and how his son wants to learn to run like him.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 7

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  A dystopic gumshoe thriller. Its vision of the future includes animated cereal boxes, customized advertisements, and a populace always aware of their own actions. Maybe the mystery is lacking in inventiveness, but Spielberg is at the height of trying everything and anything, and pulling it off with aplomb. Hitchcock is a key influence, of course, but Spielberg's peers of De Palma and Lucas have never felt so close in competition. As an aesthetic exercise, this is just an absurd flex.

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  Review by Dead Ringer ★★★★★

  pre-crime arresting me for pre-shoplifting at GAP: how’d those assorted tank tops work out?

  me: *spits out blood* fuck you

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 2

  the Free Will dystopia scfi novella and 50s conspiracy noir expertly woven into a pop action thriller. spielberg's gee whiz rendering of the future (jetpacks!!) lends itself well to bizarre comedy and inventive setpieces, but it's his visual sophistication when it comes to character (and the complexity of simple gestures/interactions) that makes this so thrilling―weird how so many modern blockbusters can't seem to grasp this.

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  Review by Gabriel Gundacker 6

  Absolutely gorgeous. (Steven) Spielberg and John(ny) Williams breathe life and theater into a story that in any other director’s hands would’ve been interpreted colder than a ice cube! Much more playful than I remember, and so visually independent from all his other stuff. Spielberg is “good” as hell! With this and Catch me if You Can (film), 2002 is my hot contrarian take for Best Spielberg Year (per capita).

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  Review by Branson Reese 3

  It’s so funny that I just accepted 2002 at face value at the time. Possibly the ugliest year of human history and I just went to middle school in a Hot Topic graphic tee and listened to Thursday about it. You look at that year now and it’s practically begging you to throw up but we really lived like that. This is exactly the same as watching that smoothed out and colorized footage of the French snowball fight from the 19th century except that this time I remember being there.

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★ 2

  Spielberg at his conceptualist best - rather fascinating to read contemporary reviews of the film, one wondering aloud if both this and AI would be a detour in the directors career or a permanent step forward. If his most recent work is any indication, it's a bit of both, deigning to combine the darker, critical side of his 00s work with the populist movements of his 80's heights. Yet I guess that's a bit unfortunate - we miss the sheer extent of Spielberg's examinations, the incredibly pessimistic view of the future (I would argue this is still on display in something like Ready Player One, but because of the combination, never to this extent), but most importantly - we get…