Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 movie is a fantastic, disturbing, utterly original dystopian drama about free will, ultraviolence, and the disintegration of modern society. Based on Anthony Burgess’ novel, written back in 1962, Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange is an amazing piece of cinema – and the movie that made me want to become a critic, because I saw it so many times trying to understand why I liked it. Ironically, once I became a TV critic, and began to have to watch a lot of bad programming from beginning to end, I felt like Alex in the scenes when he was being reprogrammed, and forced to see some very upsetting images.