Ex Machina (film)
2015
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“Annihilation” is not an easy film to discuss. It’s a movie that will have a different meaning to different viewers who are willing to engage with it. It’s about self-destruction, evolution, biology, co-dependence, and that which scares us the most—that we can no longer trust our own bodies.
Annihilation backs up its sci-fi visual wonders and visceral genre thrills with an impressively ambitious -- and surprisingly strange -- exploration of challenging themes that should leave...
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Feb 23, 2018 · The film follows characters played by Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Tessa Thompson into the heart of an eerie alien anomaly, in a plot that echoes the Russian movie Stalker.
Feb 22, 2018 · In “Annihilation” it’s Lena who assumes the role of Orpheus, descending into a transfigured world filled with terrors, death, eccentric beauty and room for interpretive leeway.
Feb 21, 2018 · Annihilation, which was shot by Rob Hardy, has an ominous beauty; it holds our attention even when we want to look away out of fear or disgust. Past the Shimmer’s translucent walls, the...
Feb 23, 2018 · Annihilation is a stunning science fiction thriller from the director of Ex Machina. With clear parallels to Stalker and an outstanding, all-female lead cast, Annihilation ranks among great ...
Feb 23, 2018 · The film stars Natalie Portman as a grieving soldier-scientist, Lena, who hasn't seen her black-ops husband, Kane (Oscar Issac), for over a year. He left on a mystery mission and...
Feb 21, 2018 · The film opens with a fiery, asteroid-like body striking a lighthouse somewhere on the Gulf Coast, leaving not destruction and calamity in its wake, only a prismatic, oily aura. (Right then and...
Feb 22, 2018 · Annihilation Review. Cellular biology professor Lena (Natalie Portman) joins an expedition into an area of Florida swampland that was hit by a meteor and is now surrounded by a mysterious shimmer...
Feb 21, 2018 · Annihilation offers a deeply mysterious and thrilling viewing experience in which dread and anxiety permeate through most scenes. Inside the Shimmer, something mutates...
