2073

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2073

2024

1h 23m

Drama

Documentary

Mystery & Thriller

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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.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

02/11/2025

I don't buy any of it. If you want to make a documentary, make a documentary.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Glenn Dunks

reDocumented

Apr 14

Doomscrolling: The Movie.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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Matt G.

@mgilbert10 Mar 2

Thought I was getting a science fiction movie. This is not a movie.

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Joshua G

@i_watch_movies77 Mar 1

Clicked on a near future dystopian movie, was fed liberal political propaganda.

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Joshua H

@HeinsJR Mar 1

I rarely feel the need to write reviews, but this movie was awful. At first, I was intrigued. A dystopian near future with a silent female protagonist who somehow narrates?Interesting concept. I expected depth or at least some explanation. Instead, the entire film turns into a stitched-together collage of real news clips meant to convince us we’re all doomed. Over an hour in, there’s still no real plot. Every time we glimpse the present (2073) for a minute or two, it cuts back to another barrage of footage from the 1990s to the 2020s. There’s no pacing, no development, no payoff. It feels like a low-budget YouTube conspiracy montage rather than an actual film. 0/5 stars.

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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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