CHECK masthead with a still from Children of Men (2006) visible through the letterforms, showing a figure beside swings in an overgrown sunlit garden.
CHECK masthead with a still from Children of Men (2006) visible through the letterforms, showing a figure beside swings in an overgrown sunlit garden.

20 YEARS ON | 2006 — 2026

Reconsidered:
Children of Men

Theo and Kee shelter with a newborn amid armed soldiers in a damaged building in Children of Men (2006).

Twenty years on, Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men has lost none of its urgency: a vision of extinction that asks not whether humanity will survive, but what makes human life matter while it exists.

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