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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.
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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. Go to Full Review
Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (LAist) 02/11/2025
I don't buy any of it. If you want to make a documentary, make a documentary. Go to Full Review
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. Go to Full Review
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. Go to Full Review
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. Go to Full Review
Glenn Dunks reDocumented 04/14/2025
Doomscrolling: The Movie. Go to Full Review
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Al T @Altor16 1d Those giving 2073 a bad review maybe should stick to Blade Runner or other dystopian, but works of fiction. If you don't want to believe your own eyes at the real life scenes of authoritarianism as depicted in this movie and as seen in every day news, then thats on you. Stick to fiction, so it'll make you feel better. Those of us who don't have our heads in the sand, can see this for what it is; the present and future if we're not careful. See more katye1522 T @RT13069217 2d For me this did exactly what it sought out to do. See the connections between the not so distant past, the politics of today, and the future path we're heading down. This takes real life events and horrors with actual video footage and ties together climate change, dictatorship, mass surveillance, and tech bro oligarchs. This isn't woke media but truth. This isn't a futile end point but a wakeup call. See more crystal C @RT83765595 Jul 21 Horrible movie. Extremely woke ideologies See more Andrew G @RT43380418 Jul 19 This is not a dystopian film. It is a ridiculous prediction that prays on uninformed or ignorant people. Add this film to the end of the world prediction of 2012 collection. See more Desert R @DesertRain Jul 14 It starts off somewhat interesting but takes a sharp turn into racist Lefist propoganda. It seems the whole point of the film was to be a Leftist hatefest instead of a good movie. See more First L @RT40610456 Jul 13 This film is liberal self-own catnip. It spends its runtime furiously connecting every dot from Brexit, Trump rallies, and "far-right" memes straight to Mad Max: Fury Road, while conveniently forgetting the left’s starring role in inflating crises, censoring debate, and pushing policies that eroded trust faster than you can say "mostly peaceful protests." If you enjoyed this movie, please seek mental help for your own sake and others around you… See more Read all reviews
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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