Steven Spielberg has managed the seemingly impossible: a harmonious marriage of his own brand of glowing optimism and the cynical, alienating style of the late Stanley Kubrick.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2024

A movie with magical moments and force but lacking in sustained narrative power.

| Original Score: B | Apr 30, 2024

A.I. isn't without a few hiccups, but in my opinion, is severely underrated when it comes to Spielberg's credits as a director.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 23, 2024

Spielberg’s future world is densely detailed and, although the film is tonally inconsistent, this remains one of the director’s most interesting and underrated works.

| Jul 3, 2023

... a dark, visionary fairy tale. Call it a cyberpunk 'Pinocchio' with a robot boy who wants to be human despite the cruelty and hate he finds on his odyssey.

| Apr 14, 2023

For a solid, well-made Steven Spielberg movie, check out Artificial Intelligence.

| Mar 21, 2023

It's a film whose humanity is kept at a distance so audiences might question how to define it, challenging us through its narrative to approach humanity from a human-less perspective.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2022

In addition to its study of love, A.I. examines the morality of creating something that can love, that must love, but whose deeply-felt affections may not always be returned.

| Jul 6, 2021

It's Spielberg's distinct sensibility that makes the difference. Rejecting the cynical trickery some people prefer in drama, his A.I. is equal to Kubrick's finest work.

| Jun 30, 2021

A.I. Artificial Intelligence manages to honor its Kubrickian origin while Steven Spielberg adds his own touch.

| Jun 29, 2021

Aside from the conflicting ideas on artificiality and humankind and love (and the ill-defined boundaries of David's capabilities), the visuals are spectacular.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 25, 2020

Although [A.I.] falls short of answering the questions raised by the basic premise of the film, it nevertheless makes you take pause in showing the irony of robots who are actually more human, and definitely more humane, than the humans themselves.

| Nov 6, 2019

The movie consistently goes against the grain of the emotional expectations that it invokes in Spielberg's expertly realized shorthand...

| Aug 17, 2018

An incredibly ambitious (if not always successful) sci-fi effort...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2018

Flawed, to be sure, but beautifully crafted, unimaginably complex, visually dazzling, rich with metaphor and deeply affecting.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 16, 2011

A confined domestic drama, a considerable morality tale, a fleeting futuristic noir, a persecution parable, an on-the-nose fairy tale adventure... and then it keeps going.

| Apr 21, 2011

An unsettling sci-fi fairytale mlange of "Pinocchio" and "The Wizard of Oz" that's elegantly written, visually opulent and thematically challenging and discontented. One of Steven Spielberg's finest, and most fiercely misread, films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Provocative movie suitable for teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2010

A "good" A.I. would be of infinitely less value than the A.I. that we have...a staggering creation.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 14, 2010

Steven Spielberg tries to rescue the world's most elusive filmmaker from an unhappy ending.

| Sep 1, 2009