The grittiness of early-70s cinema works well for this fatalistic tale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2024

This pompously prophetic thing of a film hasn’t a brain in its beanbag.

| Mar 2, 2024

Where so many science fiction visions of the era have dated, this gritty creation of a depressed (and depressing) future recycling the junk of the past, and where assisted suicide has become simply another social option, looks all the more real.

| Oct 28, 2023

Its greatest attribute is not that it accurately anticipated many things about humanity's future. "Soylent Green" stands the test of time because it does these things while slamming you right where real anxiety festers and brews . . . in your guts.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 24, 2023

Not a terribly good movie, it's nonetheless not a bad guess at a future...

| Jan 15, 2022

Grounded in such a recognizable reality that the science-fiction elements are almost indiscernible.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 31, 2020

It seems, for all its futuristic malarkey, as contrived and antiquated a melodrama as may be seen any night on the Late Show.

| Jul 16, 2019

Soylent Green is Edward G. Robinson's movie. As a man who remembers the wonders of civilization before it died, he is witty, cultivated and endlessly appealing.

| Apr 23, 2019

It's a hard one to judge, and while I enjoyed watching it, I don't see myself watching it again...I guess an average score then, but I am glad I finally watched it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2019

Not well thought-out and a genuine disappointment for all its visibility in the popular conversation

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 20, 2011

| Original Score: B | Mar 24, 2011

...a movie based on an ending. And if you can't figure out that ending ten minutes into the movie, you aren't paying attention.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 14, 2009

A sluggishly directed look at life and death in the 21st century.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2007

The somewhat plausible and proximate horrors in the story of Soylent Green carry the production over its awkward spots to the status of a good futuristic exploitation film.

| Jun 5, 2007

Uneven and slightly muddled futuristic horror story -- not really science fiction, more like an antipollution PSA gone berserk.

| Jun 5, 2007

Modestly entertaining.

| Original Score: B | May 9, 2006

Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive.

| Feb 9, 2006

This futuristic thriller just seems to keep getting better with age. An entertaining sci-fi flick done before special effects took over the genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2005

Their 21st-century New York occasionally is frightening but it is rarely convincingly real.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 9, 2005