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OFCS Rating: 95% Fresh |
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4.5/5 | "El mundo entero hablará del naturalismo de la cinta, del viaje emocional intenso, y de la grandeza del director y su fotógrafo." |
| Cinenganos |
| Alex Ramirez |
4.5/5 | "he only thing that strikes a false note here is...the final sequence (and a sound heard over the closing credits)... Otherwise a perfect film." |
| Eye for Film |
| Anton Bitel |
5/5 | "Call it dystopian or future shocking, but Children of Men is nothing more than a sensational cinematic allegory as bona fide art." |
| PopMatters |
| Bill Gibron |
| "An ugly mix of contemporary issues is hacked to unrecognizable bits in this tame, at times insipid thriller trying to impress with impossibly generic analogies to our own time." |
| european-films.net |
| Boyd van Hoeij |
8/10 | "Cuaron has once again proven that he is a filmmaker to be reckoned with in both technical prowess and keen, quiet observance" |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
A- | "Men moves like a funeral procession; slowly, methodically creeping into the belly of the beast, it's met with equal parts fascination and gut-churning horror." |
| OhmyNews.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
4.5/5 | "This is how humanity ends ... annihilated not all at once, but piecemeal, slowly ground to bits between the codependent ideologies of terror and fascism." |
| Film Journal International |
| Chris Barsanti |
4/5 | "it understands the problems we're undoubtedly going to have to face but it also sees the hope that these challenges will no doubt bring out in some individuals" |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Chris Cabin |
B+ | "Children of Men is an anecdotal vision of the way the future seems to be headed from a 2006 vantagepoint. There is only a tiny glimmer of hope, and it does not extend to the masses." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "As much as it is invigorating visually and moving emotionally, the film does turn at last on this familiar device, the damaged white man in need of spiritual and ideological fixing." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
3.5/4 | "The very soul of the film scoffs at the expectation of being conventional or formulaic." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
3/4 | "Director Alfonso Cuaron delivers some truly bravura sequences that raise this loose P.D. James adaptation to the level of exhilarating filmmaking." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
A | "Why this film didn't receive Oscar recognition for Best Picture, tells you more about the Academy's shortcomings than this picture's." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
4/4 | "A consistently tense, demanding and altogether exhilarating experience, an instant new classic of the sci-fi genre." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
4/5 | "Un brillante relato cinematográfico ejecutado con maestría, pero sobre todo una sombría visión del futuro que es en realidad una inquietante metáfora del mundo de hoy." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "One of the most technically brilliant and thematically layered films of the year." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "Alfonso Cuaron rides it out to the bitter end, creating a harsh mirror of our future with violence and some of the most purely exhilarating moments of cinema to be found in all of 2006." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
A | "Cuaron is proving to be the real thing. It's tremendously exciting to watch." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
4/4 | "I'm inclined to say 2006 was a bad year for film, but Cuarón proves me wrong..." |
| Cinema Crazed |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
3.5/4 | "Immensely thought-provoking and chillingly insightful...a resilient sci-fi fantasy that dares to contemplate the fate of mankind's chaotic impulsiveness." |
| TheWorldJournal.com |
| Frank Ochieng |
B | "Though in terms of atmosphere it's a gripping exercise in modern Orwellianism, it's less well realized in human terms." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
5/5 | "A portrait of a future society that spotlights the issues we need to be addressing today." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
B- | "Whatever else may or may not work, Children of Men at least has this: a great idea. It is too bad, then, that the movie surrounding the idea is not equally great." |
| Modern Fabulousity |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3/4 | "Although imperfect, it's engaging, thought-provoking stuff." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
4/5 | "If Children of Men sometimes oversteps in its political imagery, perhaps pushing current issues a little too pressingly, it never feels anything less than enthralling." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
| "Strong contender for the best science fiction film of 2006." |
| Sci-Fi Movie Page |
| James O'Ehley |
8/10 | "Click here to read review" |
| Kinoblog.com |
| Jaroslav Vishtaljuk |
3.5/4 | "Alfonso Cuarón's futuristic adventure derives its power from a premise as potent and primal as they come" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
9/10 | "[Children of Men] benefits from Cuarón's visual virtuosity -- in his hands, it carries a jaw-dropping immediacy." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
7/10 | "I did enjoy the film overall, but didn’t get bowled over by it as so many other fans have." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
| "Instead of engrossing me with its powerful message and gripping imagery, it just meandered along like my grandfather's Rascal on a low battery." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
10/10 | "Alfonso Cuarón's incredibly bleak peek into the very near future is a huge success on both an emotional and technical level." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3.5/5 | "click here for full review in Greek" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
| "What an amazing and thought-provoking film!" |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4.5/5 | "I have to confess that at times I was so flabbergasted by the incredible camerawork and long shots, I forgot to listen to the story. I loved it." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
2.5/4 | "It would be foolish to deny the supreme technical achievements of Children of Men." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Keith Uhlich |
4/4 | "There's a constant sense of urgency and uncertainty, as anything seemingly can and will happen to the characters." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
3/4 | "The screenplay, which differs significantly from the novel, is uneven, but the distorted mirror it holds up to the present is disturbingly clear." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "An immersive, transporting experience, both devastating and hopeful, and a film that is emotionally, intellectually, and viscerally exhilarating." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
B+ | "Invigorating in its ideas and style, Children of Men conceives a dystopian future, but its questions are just as relevant to our modern lives." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
4/10 | "This is a film that had a great deal potential, but got too involved in its action scenes." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "There's so much despair and anger and grief layered just into the background of Alfonso Cuarón's film that I can't shake its gray grimness -- I've been haunted by this film for weeks now..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/5 | "It's a hell of a setup, and for the most part Cuaron and company deliver on that promise." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
3.5/4 | "There is something satisfying about a movie that forces you to hang onto it %u2013 one where the impact grows greater the more you think about it." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "This is a heart-thumping thriller with two of the most exciting chase scenes since The Matrix Reloaded. But it is also a thoughtful, provocative, and complex film, each shot packed with details, each scene packed with ideas." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
5/5 | "Conta não apenas com um ou dois, mas com três dos planos mais complexos e geniais já concebidos por um cineasta." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
5/5 | "This futuristic London thriller is so well filmed and acted that it grabs hold of us and never lets go." |
| FilmFocus |
| Rich Cline |
4/5 | "It does the job, it does it well, and the fact that it's being called a masterpiece for doing so speaks unwell of the current state of movies." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
| "As uncertain and spontaneous as its events are in the moment, Children of Men feels too tightly wound for its own good." |
| Stranger Song |
| Rob Humanick |
A | "Children of Men works as a science-fiction parable, as a social commentary, as an action film, and as a character study. But mostly it works as pure cinematic experience." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
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OFCS Rating: 95% Fresh |
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