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Frank S. Nugent, New York Times: Things to Come is an unusual picture, a fantasy, if you will, with overtones of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips. But it is, as well, a picture with ideas which have been expressed dramatically and with visual fascination. Read more
Don Druker, Chicago Reader: [An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936. Read more