SOURCE: Strick, Philip. Review of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, by Steven Spielberg. Sight and Sound 11, no. 10 (October 2001): 38-9.

In the following review, Strick identifies parallels between A.I. and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.

[In A.I., t]he Earth's melting ice-caps have drowned countless cities, but population control has ensured the US is still an island of prosperity. Professor Hobby of Cybertronics Manufacturing proposes the ultimate robot, a child-like construction which can experience emotions. The prototype, a robot called David, is placed with Cybertronics employee Henry Swinton and his wife Monica, whose own child Martin has been cryogenically frozen until a cure a found for his terminal illness. The experiment is a success, with Monica and David sharing an ecstatic relationship. Monica even gives him Martin's supertoy Teddy, a mini-robot with superior reasoning.

When Martin is cured, David is no longer needed; Martin jealously makes trouble for...