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.

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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Claudiu Mihael T

@RT40672178 5d

Radical left propaganda. Total crap.

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Adam J

@RT45908364 5d

The bad ratings are bots. The film is accurate and important.

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J W

@RT41274029 6d

The message: stand up against dictatorship and capitalism before it's too late. A 5-minute YouTube video would have been just as effective (as in, not at all). The movie won't change anyone's mind because a) it's scattered and dull and b) everything else we've consumed today, yesterday, last week, 5 years ago... has been tailored to us based on our cookies.

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Autumn P

@RT21488611 Apr 28

Political propaganda trash. Not worth your time.

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Isla G

@RT86513232 Apr 27

The premise presented in the first 20 minutes of footage is interesting, depicting a future where everything has completely gone to hell, while simultaneously hinting at events that occurred decades earlier, even before our present day. The problem is that there are literally only about 20 minutes of scenes set in this dystopian future (which is intriguing), and then we're essentially watching an HBO, Discovery, or Netflix documentary. It's filled with interviews, statements, viral social media videos, and news footage from around the world. The message it wants to convey is easy to grasp, but the film loses much of its impact by repeating the same points three or four times in a runtime of 1 hour and 20 minutes.

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Media Content Department T

@RT43262746 Apr 25

Worst movie I’ve watched, politically motivated, boring just a compilation of footage and fiction narration

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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