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

Feb 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)

Feb 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

Jan 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, 2025

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, 2025

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, 2025

Doomscrolling: The Movie.

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Grace B

@RT21296311 5 days ago

It was never meant to be "entertaining" if anything it was meant to alarm us! warn us! absolutely excellent production. people complaining that they weren’t entertained by what is our reality?! do you live in this planet?! how can the devastation of our planet be "positive" or a "good watch". DO yourself a favor ignore those comments and watch it. is incredibly eye opening.

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Roar F

@RT09644897 Sep 7, 2026

This is a funny critique: 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. Well, I guess the movie/docu or 'Warning' (as they market it) has done its job! It was never meant to be 'entertaining'.

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Al T

@Altor16 Aug 1, 2026

Those giving 2073 a bad review maybe should stick to Blade Runner or other dystopian, but works of fiction. If you don't want to believe your own eyes at the real life scenes of authoritarianism as depicted in this movie and as seen in every day news, then thats on you. Stick to fiction, so it'll make you feel better. Those of us who don't have our heads in the sand, can see this for what it is; the present and future if we're not careful.

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katye1522 T

@RT13069217 Aug 1, 2026

For me this did exactly what it sought out to do. See the connections between the not so distant past, the politics of today, and the future path we're heading down. This takes real life events and horrors with actual video footage and ties together climate change, dictatorship, mass surveillance, and tech bro oligarchs. This isn't woke media but truth. This isn't a futile end point but a wakeup call.

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crystal C

@RT83765595 Jul 21, 2026

Horrible movie. Extremely woke ideologies

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Andrew G

@RT43380418 Jul 19, 2026

This is not a dystopian film. It is a ridiculous prediction that prays on uninformed or ignorant people. Add this film to the end of the world prediction of 2012 collection.

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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.

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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