A Clockwork Orange
1971, R, 137 min.
D: Stanley Kubrick; with Malcolm McDowell.

Now that all is said and done, it’s clear that A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey will be Stanley Kubrick’s lasting artistic legacy, not his “penultimate” movie of last summer, Eyes Wide Shut. Pulled from theatrical circulation for most of this year, A Clockwork Orange is now back in circulation, and the Alamo has it. A chilling classic, the movie is a scabrous satire about human deviance, brutality, and social conditioning that has remained a visible part of the ongoing public debate about violence and the movies.

This article appears in Carol Keeton Rylander.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.