Kubrick creates a harsh and unforgiving picture of society in this film, a society that thinks in black and white refusing to entertain color. The quick and easy fix is seemingly the only one worth indulging in.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2024

Kubrick, ever the provocateur, would probably enjoy its enduring legacy, and recoil at the same time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

The rare Kubrick film that feels like a misfire, and although the impeccable filmmaking techniques are still admirable, it’ll be tough appreciating the full effect of the shocking content when you’re checking your watch every five minutes.

| Jun 13, 2024

I can’t accept that Kubrick is merely reflecting this post-assassinations, post-Manson mood; I think he’s catering to it. I think he wants to dig it.

| Sep 12, 2023

An exploration of the power psychological games can have on us. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 5, 2023

The cast is all you could hope for, and Kubrick handles his medium with a confidence almost insolent. For the rest, he has given us the most audacious of horror films. And the most inhuman.

| Aug 8, 2022

…a sensational story of youth both revolting and betrayed…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 11, 2022

Kubrick’s intention is thus not for the audience to identify with Alex, but to see retrospectively that they are in the same situation as Alex, if they are to believe what they are watching.

| Apr 5, 2022

...while it might be tempting to say Kubricks views were perverse, this film shows there was a deep-seated nuance to his observations that cut deeply to the core of our own propensity for violence as both the cause and effect of our own moral failings.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Dazzling but problematic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2021

A stone-cold classic, no getting around the fact...

| Sep 21, 2021

With Kubrick's brilliant direction & screenplay (from the novel by Anthony Burgess), astounding visuals, and intriguing themes, the film is an unforgettable cinematic experience that continues to elicit much discussion and analysis.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2021

... though it wouldn't surprise me if most just left either humming Beethoven's 9th or "Singing in the Rain," which is in and of itself a special kind of messed up.

| Sep 20, 2021

Made me reflect on myself. On the people around me, as well as society. And it's rare for a movie to provoke thought in that manner and to do it in such a profound and shocking way.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Sep 4, 2021

How deep is sin's hold - on Alex, and on us?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2021

Special credit is emphatically due to Malcolm McDowell for a stunning performance as Alex, one of the most demanding roles ever written for a film actor.

| Dec 21, 2020

I'm afraid I found A Clockwork Orange brilliant but disappointing, its moments of power offset by an overwrought stridency and its message overbalanced by the medium.

| Dec 21, 2020

[A Clockwork Orange] is another powerfully disturbing and undeniably brilliant film by Stanley Kubrick, who shakes us up once again with a nightmare parable about man's Inescapable destiny of violence.

| Dec 21, 2020

It is, I'm afraid,nothing more than a garish Pop-art poster pretending to be a work of art.

| Dec 21, 2020

If A Clockwork Orange is not a great or memorable movie it definitely is a demonstration of the great promise this young and growing art form called cinema does possess

| Dec 21, 2020