Jennifer Bisset CNET Mar 29, 2023

This accomplished sci-fi flick should be appreciated more widely.

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Dallas King Flick Feast Nov 12, 2022 4/5

One of the most visually stunning debuts of the year... The production design is outstanding with a welcome predisposition for practical sets and effects.

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Rahul Desai News9 Live (India) Aug 29, 2022 3.5/5

A poignant cocktail of grief and science fiction.

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James Hoare SciFiNow Jul 16, 2021 4/5

The clock is clearly ticking and for all of science fiction's visual cues, there's a nerve-rattling tension to Archive that owes more to horror.

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Kat Hughes THN Jul 12, 2021 5/5

A modern era, noir tinged, sci-fi featuring some of the most emotionally engaging non-human characters the genre has ever seen, Archive is one of the films in years.

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Steven Warner In Review Online Jun 5, 2021

This climax is so stupid and the rest of the film so incapable of generating any interest that the only thing left to focus on is the amount time remaining until the end credits.

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Alix Turner Ready Steady Cut Feb 10, 2021 4.5/5

A potent and thought-provoking story about a developer of AI robots and how he uses that work to deal with the loss of his wife. A simple story on the surface, with tension and details that give it emotional depth.

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Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Feb 1, 2021 4/5

...those seeking their fix of brainy sci-fi should apply now...

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Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 21, 2021 4/5

All in all, Archive is good, bleak, shivery fun, and however familiar some of its components may seem, it thrums with an intelligence that's anything but artificial.

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Danny Leigh Financial Times Jan 20, 2021 3/5

For all the familiarity, the movie has the brio of good pulp and a neat surprise in store.

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Anton Bitel Sight & Sound Jan 19, 2021

Rothery's soulful, at times surreal SF debut works on multiple levels as, certainly, a very modern ghost story but also as a paranoid thriller, a yearning romance and an introspective tragedy, full of hubris and catastrophe

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Mark Kermode Kermode & Mayo's Film Review Jan 16, 2021

An interesting if derivative science fiction movie...although I don't think it will surprise or startle, it takes something we've seen before and does it in a stylish way.

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Andrew Dex Starburst Jan 15, 2021 4/5

The set pieces that have been assembled on top of an otherworldly location are jaw dropping.

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Cath Clarke Guardian Jan 14, 2021 3/5

Archive is refreshingly non-cerebral - and that's a compliment. It's a sci-fi movie that wants to entertain, not deliver a lecture on AI.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Sep 7, 2020 C+

Many changes come at the climax, and they are not all good.

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Matt Conway Battle Royale With Cheese Jul 30, 2020

If viewers can stomach a lingering sense of familiarity, Archive offers a sturdy, slow-burn science fiction throwback.

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Drew Tinnin Dread Central Jul 21, 2020 4.5/5

Archive honors the great sci-fi visuals of the past and pushes modern sci-fi a little farther into the future.

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Daniel M. Kimmel North Shore Movies Jul 21, 2020 4/5

Archive is a movie that works as both speculative science fiction and moving human drama. Fans of the genre will note that there's no contradiction in that.

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Kyle Smith National Review Jul 20, 2020

Archive isn't the first time this idea has come to the screen, but it makes for a reasonably compelling, if chilly, sci-fi tale in the mold of 2015's Ex Machina.

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Katey Stoetzel The Young Folks Jul 16, 2020 8/10

With an incredible score by Steven Price, Archive has all of the right science fiction set ups and atmosphere, even if the dynamics are nothing new.

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