Science Fiction · Mystery · Adventure
2001: A Space Odyssey
Avg rating 8.4 / My rating TBC
1968 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
- Science Fiction
- Art Cinema
- Auteur Cinema
A mysterious object is discovered, and a journey begins across vast distances toward its origin. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke build a slow, wordless, visually overwhelming science fiction film that asks to be experienced as much as followed.
Film info
- Runtime
- 2h 29m · 149 min
- Format
- Colour, shot in 70mm widescreen (about 2.2:1). Best seen on the biggest screen available; effects still hold up.
- IMDb
- 8.3 / 10 (772,787 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 90% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 84 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (audience, 12,995 votes)
- Trailer
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