In the futuristic tale, a highly advanced robotic boy named David longs to become 'real' so that he can be loved by his mother and his father in that happy place called home.
15 August 1964, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
28 June 1922, Brooklyn, New York, USA
3 February 1970
20 June 1977, Harris County, Texas, USA
21 January 1970, New York City, New York, USA
9 October 1958, Havana, Cuba
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
24 September 1964, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
16 December 1961, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1962, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
30 January 1990, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
7 September 1957, San Jose, California, USA
24 March 1985, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
24 July 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
29 March 1955, Dublin, Ireland
1972, Paris, France
20 October 1993, Ventura County, California, USA
May 16, 2011
Flawed, to be sure, but beautifully crafted, unimaginably complex, visually dazzling, rich with metaphor and deeply affecting.February 09, 2006
At heart it's a terribly anguished expression of rejection, loneliness and love. If only it knew when to stop.October 29, 2001
Temperamentally, Spielberg and Kubrick are such polar opposites that A.I. has the moment-to-moment effect of being completely at odds with itself.April 21, 2011
A confined domestic drama, a considerable morality tale, a fleeting futuristic noir, a persecution parable, an on-the-nose fairy tale adventure... and then it keeps going.July 16, 2001
The most puzzling, trippiest piece of pop fantasy of Spielberg's career.February 14, 2010
A "good" A.I. would be of infinitely less value than the A.I. that we have...a staggering creation.September 01, 2009
Steven Spielberg tries to rescue the world's most elusive filmmaker from an unhappy ending.September 02, 2010
Provocative movie suitable for teens.September 25, 2010
An unsettling sci-fi fairytale mélange of "Pinocchio" and "The Wizard of Oz" that's elegantly written, visually opulent and thematically challenging and discontented. One of Steven Spielberg's finest, and most fiercely misread, films.June 17, 2008
Shows a more complicated understanding of childhood than you would expect...August 16, 2007
At heart it's a terribly anguished expression of rejection, loneliness and love. If only it knew when to stop.July 16, 2001
The most philosophical film in Kubrick's canon, the most intelligent in Spielberg's, and quite possibly the film with the most contemporary relevance that either one has made since Kubrick released Dr. Strangelove in 1964.