'Minority Report' is Steven Spielberg's Ugliest Movie, and That's Part of What Makes It Great

The sweeping orchestrations and camera movements of Steven Spielberg's films are why we most closely associate his great works with the very concept of "movie magic." But his 2002 dystopian sci-fi thriller, Minority Report, flips that concept on its head. Minority Report stars Tom Cruise as William Anderton, a detective working in a futuristic Precrime division, where he can receive transmitted premonitions of murders about to come true and must use his skills to find out exactly where they will happen. Anderton is great at his job until his name comes up as an accused, and he is thrown into a moral dilemma regarding the essence of fate and determinism in an attempt to clear his name.