the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, all of which involved divisive debates about immigration and increasing border enforcement, several commentators reappraised the film's importance, with some calling it "prescient". Top 10 lists The film appeared on many critics' top 10 lists as one of the best films of 2006: 1st – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post 1st – Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club 1st – Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle 1st – Tasha Robinson, The A.V. Club 2nd (of the decade) – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 2nd – Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter 2nd – Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club 3rd – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 4th – Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times 4th – Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe 5th – Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald 6th – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times 7th – Empire 7th – Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter 7th – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe 8th – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times (tied with Pan's Labyrinth) 8th – Scott Foundas, LA Weekly (tied with L'Enfant) 8th – Scott Foundas, The Village Voice Unordered – Dana Stevens, Slate Unordered – Liam Lacey and Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail Unordered – Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor Unordered – Mark Kermode, BBC Radio 5 Live In 2012, director Marc Webb included the film on his list of Top 10 Greatest Films when asked by Sight & Sound for his votes for the BFI The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time. In 2015, the film was named number one on an all-time Top 10 Movies list by the blog Pop Culture Philosopher. In 2017 Rolling Stone magazine ranked Children of Men as the best Sci-fi film of the 21st century. Accolades P. D. James was reported to be pleased with the film, and the screenwriters of Children of Men were awarded the 19th annual USC Scripter Award for the screen adaptation of the novel. Home media The HD-DVD and DVD were released in Europe on 15 January 2007 and in the United States on 27 March 2007. Extras include a half-hour documentary by director Alfonso Cuarón, entitled The Possibility of Hope (2007), which explores the intersection between the film's themes and reality with a critical analysis by eminent scholars: the Slovenian sociologist and philosopher Slavoj Žižek, anti-globalization activist Naomi Klein, environmentalist futurist James Lovelock, sociologist Saskia Sassen, human geographer Fabrizio Eva, cultural theorist Tzvetan Todorov,