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

| Mar 2, 2024

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

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

| Original Score: B | Mar 24, 2011

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

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

| Feb 9, 2006

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

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

A doozy.

| Oct 5, 2003

Thanks to Phil Hartman's riotous Saturday Night Live impersonation of Charlton Heston's hysterical detective from Soylent Green, people who've never seen Richard Fleischer's film know its surprise ending.

| Aug 22, 2003