This is a portrait of a society that has passively bartered away civil rights and left much of the population in squalor, living in slums and surviving in the cracks of a surveillance society that has no use for citizens it can’t monetize.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2023

Maybe the precogs could foresee a worse filmmaker than Steven Spielberg sometime in the far future, but right now, as far as I’m concerned, he’s got no challengers.

Full Review | Jan 31, 2023

Minority Report does offer a few issues to ponder, and given the mindlessness of most summer action specials, it’s something of an intellectual feast, even if it’s all hors d’oeuvres.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2022

Certainly one of Tom Cruise’s best (films), and I think one of Steven Spielberg’s best too…. So much fun to watch, a really intriguing thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 29, 2022

It’s colder and more calculating than much of Spielberg’s oeuvre, and is all the better for it.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2022

The visionary quality of Minority Report's cinematic world is matched solely by its endless influence on both film and real-world technology since its release.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

An entertaining sci-fi ride that offers nifty visuals, interesting themes and of course Tom Cruise running and jumping all over futuristic set pieces. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2021

In that sense, the filmmakers' decision in the end to come down against "pre-crime," while not unimportant, hardly stands out as a compelling defense of basic democratic rights.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2021

Minority Report leaves much to debate about the film's themes and the rightness or wrongness.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2021

The level of fantasy frequently rivals the severer science-fiction elements, radiating Spielberg's brand of lively storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 7, 2020

Though it's not among the finest adaptations of Philip K. Dick, Minority Report has aged rather well with its prescient, paranoiac glimpse of the not-distant-enough future.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2020

It's a handsome film-certainly better than A.I.-but ultimately rather tedious and falsely sentimental, as Spielberg films have a tendency to be.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2020

Deviation from the original Dick story leaves huge gaps in the plot which require implausible explanations in order to close out the film.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2019

Spielberg creates an intriguing world that is at once futuristic and accessible, it makes our collective imagination soar but is never alienating.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 3, 2019

By turning Dick's ironic little story into a gargantuan thriller celebrating free choice, Spielberg has been true to his character: He's transformed something dark and scary into something softer and more comfortable.

Full Review | May 17, 2018

If less poetic than AI, Minority Report is much more confidently directed, with a firmer sense of its maker's own urge to entertain and stimulate rather than bemuse.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2016

Even if he belabors the ending and can't resist tempering the darkness with a strained ray of hopefulness, Minority Report is a document that proves Spielberg among the top ranks in a minority of film geniuses.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 15, 2016

The worst thing about the new Steven Spielberg picture is the title, Minority Report. The best thing about it is pretty much everything else.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2013

This is a grown-up movie by men who've suddenly realised that their inner Peter Pans have deserted them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2013

Too much of Minority Report is facile, albeit at a very high level.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2013