For a person who claims to be a film lover there are some huge gaps in my movie consumption. With the help of the late Roger Ebert’s essay compilation The Great Movies I hope to correct that. Roger and I begin our journey with Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001 is not my first Kubrick experience, though in many ways it feels like it is. Dr. Strangelove has a lot of fun with its themes, but it is mostly straightforward; and The Shining is… The Shining. 2001 is the first time I have really seen the kind of movie that would prompt viewers to come up with fantastical theories like the ones found in the documentary Room 237.
Steven Cohen's 365 Days of Reviews 