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It's the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown, Minority Report) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past--a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today's global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.
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Critics Consensus

2073 is visually striking and occasionally haunting, but its preachy tone, derivative dystopian tropes, and air of exhausted fatalism leave it more dispiriting than entertaining.

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Rebecca Harrison Sight & Sound 02/22/2025
While there’s much to admire in its form, 2073 leaves the viewer with the overwhelming sense that we’ve already run out of road. Go to Full Review
Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (LAist) 02/11/2025
I don't buy any of it. If you want to make a documentary, make a documentary. Go to Full Review
Danny Leigh Financial Times 01/15/2025
3/5
Through [Morton], Kapadia audits the morbid symptoms he argues are taking us there: climate breakdown fueled by what journalist Anne Applebaum calls a global "democracy recession" and the influence of tech leaders set on leaving the planet altogether. Go to Full Review
Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31
Amy filmmaker Asif Kapadia's clear-eyed wrangling with fake news blurs the documentary form to posit where our surveillance state and bad actors will lead us in the future, with Blade Runner-like fictional sequences led by Samantha Morton. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Apr 17
2/4
The trouble with 2073 is that not only does it employ an unwieldy gimmick as its foundation but it places it in the service of a “preaching to the choir” piece. Go to Full Review
Glenn Dunks reDocumented Apr 14
Doomscrolling: The Movie. Go to Full Review
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LéRue T @RT27877405 16h This is art in the same way watching a dog vomit and then eat it up is. Helen Keller could have made a more enjoyable movie than this and it likely would have made better sense. A root canal done through my ass would have been less painful than watching this crap. The best part about all this is that I can't stand the Republicans or the Democrats but after this insufferable waste of time I think I'll vote Republican next time just to spite this abortion. See more Jordan T @JordyBuckets Mar 11 Both sides are bad. It's draining and that's the point of this "film". No character development, just reiterated national news footage. See more Nick H @The_Real_Big_Banko Mar 10 This movie is bad, so bad I downloaded Rotten Tomatoes and posted a review. It’s neither a documentary nor entertaining. It was plotless…unless of course you believe every worst case scenario possible known to man culminating in the "Event". About 1 hour in I was praying the Event was real to end this misery. 1 hour and 25 minutes of stupidity. The best part ? The ending. When the movie was finally over. The torture finally ended. See more Kyle M @Snoozefest Mar 4 I’m at the point where I hate both sides of politics but this movie made me cringe so hard for the democratic side of politics. This has white liberal fantasy written all over it and it’s pathetic. There is no plot. Unless you get a turn on by heavy liberal ideology from main stream media Id recommend staying away from this "film". See more Matt G. @mgilbert10 Mar 2 Thought I was getting a science fiction movie. This is not a movie. See more Joshua G @i_watch_movies77 Mar 1 Clicked on a near future dystopian movie, was fed liberal political propaganda. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis It's the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown, Minority Report) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past--a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today's global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.
Director
Asif Kapadia
Producer
Asif Kapadia, George Chignell
Screenwriter
Asif Kapadia, Tony Grisoni, Tony Grisoni
Distributor
NEON
Production Co
Sheep Thief Films, Film4, Lafcadia Productions, Neon, Double Agent
Genre
Drama, Documentary, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 27, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 7, 2025
Runtime
1h 23m
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