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Film · 1982 · Science fiction
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott
1982
★ 9.2 editorial score
It flopped, then quietly redesigned the future: every rainy neon city of the last forty years is borrowing from Ridley Scott, and the mood still outlasts the plot.
“Scott, a provocative visual stylist, brought terms like cyberpunk and retrofitting into the American vocabulary with this voluptuously decadent, sensor-overloaded portrait of Los Angeles as it might be in 2019: crowded, polluted, clangorous, damp, desperate and diverse...Grand enough in scale to carry its many Biblical and mythological references, "Blade Runner" never feels heavy or pretentious -- only more and more engrossing with each viewing.”
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