The Matrix

Movie • 1999

8.7

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Roger Ebert

It's great-looking, both in its design and in the kinetic energy that powers it.

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The New York Times

A furious special-effects tornado directed by the imaginative Wachowski brothers, 'The Matrix' captures the duality of life a la laptop with a savvy visual vocabulary.

nytimes.com/1999/03/31/movies/film-review-the-reality-is-all-virtual-and-densely-complicated.html

The Hollywood Reporter

The Matrix will open mightily and have a wide-open month to become early 1999’s biggest hit.

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Empire

The deliciously inventive Wachowskis have delivered the syntax for a new kind of movie: technically mind-blowing, style merged perfectly with content and just so damn cool.

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Variety

It’s Special Effects 10, Screenplay 0 for “The Matrix,” an eye-popping but incoherent extravaganza of morphing and superhuman martial arts.

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IMDb

Each explanation sounds wrong... it is more than a film. It is a revolution in the way to see a film and to discover reality.

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IMDb

it is more than a film. it is a revolution in the way to see a film and to discover reality.

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Rotten Tomatoes

The Wachowskis turn the world into a virtual reality landscape with a 20th century tech-noir look and the physics of a video game.

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