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

04/17/2025

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

04/14/2025

Doomscrolling: The Movie.

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crystal C

@RT83765595 Jul 21

Horrible movie. Extremely woke ideologies

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Andrew G

@RT43380418 Jul 19

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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Desert R

@DesertRain Jul 14

It starts off somewhat interesting but takes a sharp turn into racist Lefist propoganda. It seems the whole point of the film was to be a Leftist hatefest instead of a good movie.

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First L

@RT40610456 Jul 13

This film is liberal self-own catnip. It spends its runtime furiously connecting every dot from Brexit, Trump rallies, and "far-right" memes straight to Mad Max: Fury Road, while conveniently forgetting the left’s starring role in inflating crises, censoring debate, and pushing policies that eroded trust faster than you can say "mostly peaceful protests." If you enjoyed this movie, please seek mental help for your own sake and others around you…

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Janice D

@RT97415567 Jul 7

Pure left wing propaganda without any imagination. If our world ever ended up like this, it would be because we allowed the socialists and communists to take over. Hilarious how it’s blamed on right wing conservatives and anti Muslim BS!

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Keith B

@Okbullard Jun 28

This was complete nonsense and so boring I couldn't believe it. If there ever was a film made by someone absolutely out of their mind this has to be it. I could only get through 20 minutes then I had to put it and me out of our misery. Don't bother with this garbage.

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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