It’s a cool-heeled but gripping musing on whether we should, just because we could, that also finds room for freaking Gore Vidal.

| Mar 6, 2025

A tremendously interesting movie that questions eugenics and beyond. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 21, 2023

The writer-director crafts a paranoid, discriminatory world out of ripped-from-the-headlines science. Adopting a noirish mood amid an austere dystopian backdrop, it’s the sort of Orwellian vision that could only exist in a movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2023

A fascinating sci-fi drama that has stood the test of time with ease. The dense, romantic, somber atmosphere fits perfectly with the eerie topic that is incredibly close to us.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 18, 2022

You have to admire Niccol's humanizing agenda in movie terrain usually crowded with numbing technology and digital stereo explosions. But jeez, what a downer.

| Jun 1, 2022

Gattaca relies on solid storytelling rather than lazily hoping to distract you with great visuals and special effects.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2021

Gattaca boasts an excellent cast full of talented actors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2021

The fixating premise and the commentary on conviction defeating arbitrary inequities make for an unconventional and wholly entertaining experience.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 13, 2020

A clever and sly slab of sci-fi, depicting a future where the superior race will be people genetically assembled from the edited highlights of their parents.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2020

...a deliberately-paced yet mostly spellbinding sci-fi drama...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 25, 2020

Gattaca doesn't quite live up to the promise of its premise.

| Feb 28, 2020

Stylishly scoped with ice-blue hues and smartly visualized with a forbiddingly cold design, Gattaca is an intelligently-conceived sci-fi chiller starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.

| Oct 25, 2019

An institutional hush envelops the compelling cautionary fable Gattaca as if it were muffled by a velvet lab coat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2018

A thoughtful hybrid of sci-fi, thriller, and character drama; to give you some idea of its high-mindedness, it not only opens with a relevant Bible verse (Ecclesiastes 7:13), but in the opening credits that follow, Gore Vidal is fifth-billed.

| Nov 14, 2017

Among the very best of all the original "thoughtful" sci-fi movies out there.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 4, 2016

It predicts the way the world would change in 2001--and how our films would reflect that change.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2008

Ripe for reappraisal...the storytelling integrity and thoughtful themes of a good novel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

A modern sci-fi classic comes home to high-def in a gorgeous new transfer.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 18, 2008

This stately, stunningly beautiful picture evokes a future in which present-day prejudices and neuroses have been taken to new, insidious scientifically rationalized heights.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2007

I didn't care enough about Hawke's character to ignore a big problem in the story's logic: if this future has such incredible biotechnology, why can't Law just get his damaged body parts fixed?

| Jun 5, 2007