SOURCE: Chang, Chris. “Steven Spielberg's Minority Report Is In: Find out How It Will Make You a Better Person.” Film Comment 38, no. 4 (July-August 2002): 44-5.

In the following review, Chang commends Minority Report as both “physically exhilarating” and intellectually challenging.

Aristotle, the clearinghouse of logical conundrums, loved to speculate about possible futures. His “sea battle” experiment is a classic: Two navies (A and B) are going to war tomorrow. There can and will be only one winner. Since any statement is either true or false (the law of the excluded middle) and since no statement is both true and false (the law of non-contradiction), the statements “A wins” and “B wins” will necessarily be true and false—or false and true, depending on what happens tomorrow. Here's the rub: Since one of the statements is necessarily true today, it doesn't matter what A or B does: the future has...