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Children of Men Poster
The Venice International Film Festival has been showing off films expected to come our way shortly including Children of Men. With early screenings come early reviews.
Children of Men Movie Reviews
Both THR and Variety have posted their early impressions on Children of Men and, unlike The Fountain, both publications see the film in a very positive light.
THR
In his gripping new thriller Children of Men, director Alfonso Cuaron takes the classic movie formula of a cynical tough guy required to see an innocent party to safe harbor, and shoots it to pieces.
Based on a novel by British mystery writer P.D. James, the film works both as a thriller and as a satisfying political and social drama. It should prove a winner at the boxoffice in all territories.
Cuaron and Owen may have created the first believable 21st-century movie hero.
Variety
An often grippingly realized portrait of a not-so-futuristic Blighty in which fascism and infertility have become uneasy bed partners, Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men is a fine but flawed exercise in dystopia. Much more effective when it's a down-and-dirty actioner than when trying to grapple with the multitude of personal and political issues raised, pic suffers from Clive Owen's cold lead playing but gains some heart and soul from a kudosworthy, wonderfully eccentric perf by Michael Caine. Skedded for a fall rollout in Europe and a December release in the U.S., this film looks likely to reap comfortable mid-range business.
Check out both reviews for Children of Men by clicking on the bold links.
Children of Men comes to theatres on September 29th.
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