Reception
The film has a generally positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with 68% of critics giving good reviews. Praise is mainly focused on the special effects and Bruce Dern's performance, while the weak script and storyline are criticised. In his New York Times review, Vincent Canby says this "is no jerry-built science fiction film, but it's a little too simple-minded to be consistently entertaining." UK film critic Mark Kermode has regularly named the film as one of his personal favourites in his BBC blog, on more than one occasion stating his preference for it over 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In 2008, Silent Running was nominated for AFI's Top 10 Science Fiction Films list.
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