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ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)
In the end, A Clockwork Orange is too complex a film to deal with in anything resembling a simple review. One could write a doctoral thesis on all the things at work in the novel and film and still not cover it all. Kubrick's...read the complete Clockwork Orange, A (1971) review at ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)
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Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
A Clockwork Orange is about as good a film as could possibly be made out of a novel by Anthony Burgess - a first-rate critic, essayist and memoirist, but, when it came to fiction, a very minor talent, bizarrely over-rated. Not that Kubrick would have...read the complete Clockwork Orange, A (1971) review at Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
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Toto Cinema Matters, Australia (Adam Rivett)
In the treacherous halls of Village Cinemas, Stanley Kubrick is a deity, an acceptable figure of seriousness amid all that hucksterism and cinematic prostitution. For years now a regular Friday and Saturday night ritual has been to unleash a decimated...read the complete Clockwork Orange, A (1971) review at Toto Cinema Matters, Australia (Adam Rivett)
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A very bad film--snide, barely competent, and overdrawn--that enjoys a perennial popularity, perhaps because its confused moral position appeals to the secret Nietzscheans within us....read the complete Clockwork Orange, A (1971) review at Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr)
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by brett on January 28, 2009 Ogden, Utah
Stanley Kubrick did a great job of recreating the book. Not many movies live up to the original's standards, but this film was close. Certain scenes from the book seemed much more realistic and disturbing being acted out. The actors played the ...

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