[REVIVAL] A high-def gloss makes the Korova Milk Bar sparkle, but the themes of A Clockwork Orange are as disturbing, prophetic and devilishly hilarious in the digital age as in 1971. Stanley Kubrick’s iconic adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ tongue-twisting novel leaves no sense unviolated. It’s a stylistic landmark, but Kubrick’s ability to milk sympathy for Alex, the film’s frighteningly charismatic “protagonist,” is even more amazing. After nearly an hour of watching Alex rape and pillage, he’s thrust into a Pavlovian experiment in forced pacifism. Kubrick goes for the jugular with a manic glee when it comes to psychiatry, government, the penal system and political fanaticism, blurring the thin line between cruel and unusual and acceptable. After nearly four decades as a mainstream classic, Clockwork remains as challenging, shocking and potent as ever. R. AP KRYZA