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The seemingly disparate sensibilities of sentimentalist Steven Spielberg and chilly ironist Stanley Kubrick, who left this science fiction Pinocchio story unrealized at the time of his death, here achieve an unexpected harmony. Haley Joel Osment plays a robot child abandoned by his adopted parents to the cruel (if astonishingly realized) outside world, in a film that finds Spielberg at his most challenging and most poignant. “One of the most poetic and haunting allegories about the cinema that I can think of... It’s also the most philosophical film in Kubrick’s canon, the most intelligent in Spielberg’s.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader

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