Things to Come 1936

Critics score:
92 / 100

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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

Chris Wicking, Time Out: In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark. Read more

Variety: This is England's first $1 million picture. It's an impressive but dull exposition of a bad dream. Read more