Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
For all the essential coldness of Kubrick's vision, it demands attention as superior sci-fi, simply because it's more concerned with ideas than with Boy's Own-style pyrotechnics.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
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It was a freshening attitude then, though its long-term effects haven't been all to the good.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
8 May 2007
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The film's projections of the cold war and antiquated product placements may look quaint now, but the poetry is as hard-edged and full of wonder as ever.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
8 May 2007
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Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is some sort of great film, and an unforgettable endeavor. Technically and imaginatively, what he put into it is staggering.
– Penelope Gilliatt,
New Yorker,
14 Jan 2013
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2001 lingers on the mind like a tall, black riddle: Where are the new bones, the new tools, that will take us higher? Do we even deserve them?