One of the most fascinating films I’ve ever watched

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Fiennes holds steady; his moody, lonely performance, especially in the beguiling first half hour, lends the story an air of calm despair.

Full Review | Mar 10, 2023

This flick is one of Bigelow's very best efforts. Hopefully, the world can finally acknowledge it as the subversive, brilliant work of a master.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 6, 2023

It’s a big messy sprawl, and it’s satisfying as only a flawed movie can be.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 1, 2022

It proved so ahead of its time, so involved in its myriad of narrative threads, so full of virtuosic formal innovations, so rich in its cultural commentary, and so sybilline in its portrait of the future that its reappraisal seemed inevitable

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 17, 2022

What this movie is ultimately saying is, don't think at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2022

The intervening 27 years have bolstered the films reputation as a singular vision of the not-too-distant future.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2022

Strange Days is a careening, high-decibel vision of the near future that combines science fiction, murder mystery and social commentary. It is not entirely successful, but it's a worthy effort.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2021

Strange Days is not a simple film, but a profound sensory experience, where the filmmaker is the prophet of a reality just around the corner.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 18, 2021

Kathryn Bigelow's propulsive sci-fi thriller Strange Days is a stone cold, ass-kicking classic.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2021

Strange Days does something most dystopian films don't: it presents a future where we aren't all unhappily oppressed in a similar fashion.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2020

Fortunately, the very convincing performances along with the entire climax of the film, helps to cover the problems of its realization and its script. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 24, 2019

Strange Days hurtles down the track for two hours, frantically trying to warn us en route to the Big Switchback, only to pull up in a hiss of smoke and hot air.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 30, 2019

The movie went off like a landmine in Lincoln Center, traumatizing upscale audiences with its pulp semiotics and Bigelow's blunt-force filmmaking.

Full Review | Mar 17, 2018

Messy, dreary and repulsive slick near future sci-fi/film noir thriller that both dazzles and is bombastic.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 26, 2018

Director Kathryn Bigelow comes closer than any other filmmaker to turning movies into a virtual reality trip.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] "Strange Days" owes a debt to Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom," the film that ruined his storied career.

Full Review | Original Score: A | May 7, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

[Bigelow] with the help of her talented cast, constantly wrestles against the script, and for a great deal of time, she appears to be winning.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2007

Set in LA at the end of the century, this morality tales showed again the main problem in the director's work: The great divide between simlistic plots and technical sophistication. Even so, it's one of a kind for its use of color, sound and motion

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 2, 2006