S.W.’s Scores
Continuity
+5
Entertainment
+5
Rewatchability
+2
CastMalcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
StreamingMax, digital rental
S.W.’s Verdict
Kubrick forces you to spend two hours inside the head of someone you despise and then asks you to feel sorry for him. The visual language is so controlled that even the violence becomes compositional. It is a film about free will disguised as a film about violence. Most people watch it once. That is probably enough.