SUBMITTED BY Movieman129

June 21, 2002 —

In Lisa Schwarzbaum's review of Minority Report in Entertainment Weekly, she gives the film a "B" grade. She is the same person who gave Spielberg's last film A.I. Artifical Intelligence an "A-". Why the difference? See for yourself:

The late Stanley Kubrick, whose spirit has led a restless Steven Spielberg in midlife to rewardingly dark, hard crannies of dystopia and art, presides over the elusive futuristic thriller Minority Report like a ghostly, unpaid technical adviser... The mechanical beauty and android possibilities of the future excite the filmmaker, and that's where ''Minority Report'' becomes an alluring postcard from the edge. But it's an edge over which Spielberg never seems to want to step.

There's something auspicious, and daring, too, about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like Steven Spielberg to follow ''A.I.'' with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority. B

Read the rest of the review at the link below.