Spielberg inherited the late Stanley Kubrick‘s long-gestating project about an android boy struggling to find his place in a world drowning in melted polar ice caps. The two filmmakers’ storytelling sensibilities clash more often than they shake hands — but when they do mesh, the episodic attains an almost tragic quality that tugs on the heartstrings and makes you think. And yes, that much-debated "happy ending"/fourth act is — contrary to what you heard — all Kubrick.
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