A wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination, The Matrix combines traditional science-fiction premises with spanking new visual technology in a way that almost defies description.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Kinetic, atmospheric, visually stunning, and mind-bending.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
With its mix of Lewis Carroll and William Gibson; Japanese anime and Chinese chopsocky; mythological allusions, and machine-made illusion, offers a couple of hours of escapist fun.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
One of the more lyrical sci-fi action thrillers ever made, in which space and time become love slaves to the directors' witty visual fancies.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
One big, fat, honking comic book of a sci-fi-martial-arts adventure flick.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
There's a kind of liberating, almost transforming energy in this film; it lights you up and sends you out all giddy with silliness.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
A visually dazzling cyberadventure, full of kinetic excitement, but it retreats to formula just when it's getting interesting.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Janet Maslin
The martial arts stunts that are its single strongest selling point.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
With an arsenal of cool f/x at their disposal, the Wachowskis have come up with a dizzyingly enjoyable junk movie that has just enough on its mind to keep the pleasure from being a guilty one.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
Given a budget that encourages their kinesthetic skills, the filmmakers tend to go on a bit, but it's mostly a kind of quick, glancing hipness that's being indulged here.Read Full Review »
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