An early masterpiece of the sci-fi genre...

| Mar 7, 2023

"Grandiose" in the worst sense of that bad word.

| Dec 15, 2021

The speculative qualities of this epic sci-fi drama are worth seeing, particularly due to the early year in which it was theatrically adapted.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 30, 2020

Go out of your way to see Things to Come, for the occasional flashes of modern design that recall Metropolis...

| May 4, 2020

a huge, wonderful, fantastic spectacle film which shows civilization wiped out within the lifetime of the present generation, then restored, wrapped in Cellophane, for those of our descendants who think it worth while to survive.

| Jul 22, 2019

Things to Come (L'avenir) is a masterclass in restraint that proves that a film does not need to be ostentatious in order to be powerful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2019

Everyone in this Wellsian future loves it, except for a Luddite (Cedric Hardwicke). "What is the good of all this progress?" he declares. "We demand a rest!" He's supposed to be the villain, but I find him to be the film's most sympathetic character.

| Original Score: 4 of 5 | Apr 18, 2016

In all, this is a film which because of its conception and technical achievements demands to he seen and deserves careful and discriminating attention.

| Aug 1, 2015

As troublesome as Wells' philosophy may be, especially his faith in technocracy, Things certainly helped urge the medium into a new era - another Nation's Birth of artistry, and ignorance.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 9, 2013

(Wells) never imagined our 21st century gadgets would be so tiny; pocket-sized streaming devices for a population more interested in gazing at navels than at stars.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 12, 2013

a disappointing lesson learned about the limitations of amazing imagery bereft of interesting characters and narrative

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 13, 2013

Its lecture-dialogue stilted and ideas simplistic, 'Things to Come' is nevertheless a worthy visual experience.

| Nov 28, 2010

Essential viewing today for anyone interested in the history of celluloid science fiction, but general audiences will most likely find it to be dull.

| Feb 5, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2008

Things to Come is an unusual picture, a fantasy, if you will, with overtones of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips. But it is, as well, a picture with ideas which have been expressed dramatically and with visual fascination.

| May 31, 2007

A truly epic work which continues to fascinate.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 31, 2007

This is England's first $1 million picture. It's an impressive but dull exposition of a bad dream.

| May 31, 2007

Spookily prescient in many of its ideas, this is fascinating whilst being a little clumsy and dated, even for its time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2007

In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark.

| Jun 24, 2006

Wells' heart must have sunk as audiences avoided his impassioned and idealistic -- yet dour and didactic -- cri de coeur.

| Apr 6, 2006