Original sentence: in retrospect as not being of a high enough quality to merit the Academy Award for Best Picture; especially when compared to Stanley Kubrick’s now highly revered and unnominated 2001: A Space Odyssey
Edited sentence: Many of these critics are huge fans of the Kubrick classic.in retrospect as not being of a high enough quality to merit the Academy Award for Best Picture; especially when compared to the now highly revered and unnominated 2001: A Space Odyssey