Dear Readers,
To call the film misunderstood in 2001, or even today, is an understatement.
Few films have ever walked the thin line between earnestness and irony so flawlessly.
A bold, swashbuckling adventure.
A nimble, wildly entertaining, and even sophisticated reconsideration of slasher movies.
A stylistically transitional film in Ingmar Bergman’s career that echoes his lifelong questions about faith and human impulses.
An enduring and unforgettable experience.
An overwhelming film—an intelligent and never-understated examination of the holy and grotesque.
Satirical yet earnest, ironic yet heartfelt, optimistic yet never cloying.
Kubrick’s classic captures humanity’s relentless death drive in comical, realistic, practical, and inevitable terms.
