A black monolith turns up at three points in human history and each time something changes. Between the first and the last, two astronauts and a very calm computer travel toward Jupiter.
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- Cinematography avg 5
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- Music & Sound avg 5
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- Special Effects avg 5
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- Pacing & Editing avg 2
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- Compared to everything avg 4.5
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IMDb
8/10
Letterboxd
4.0★
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Rotten Tomatoes
4.0★
TMDB
8.5/10
Trakt
8/10
Metacritic (user)
8/10
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Cast
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- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writing
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Cinematography
- Geoffrey Unsworth
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