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Annihilation
Positive Reviews
248
Negative reviews
48
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1.5
But at least he finally devises an ending, different from the books, that doesnt abandon the ideas in favor of carnage; love or hate the down the worm ..
Av Club
4.0
It can be genuinely horrifyingcomplete with several truly terrifying scenes that mix body horror with existential dreadbut it can also be wondrous and ..
Den Of Geek
4.5
But like Get Out and The Shape Of Water, its another recent film that takes a familiar genre idea and bends it into something new and unexpected.
Den Of Geek
3.0
But the overall effect is extraordinary: a lavish, magnificently unnerving visual feast threaded through with well earned jump scares and real metaphy ..
EW
4.4
Its meant to linger in your mind and haunt your dreams.In this recent wave of sci fi films, its one of the best.
Rogerebert
4.0
Alex Garlands second directorial outing after the excellent Ex Machina, this brainy, metaphysical sci fi is even more ambitious and more amazing. But ..
Common Sense Media
2.0
A timely ecological thriller that wouldnt look out of place in Larry Fessendens oeuvre, the movie probes the interplay of beauty and terror inherent t ..
Indie Wire
4.5
At once a gripping jungle survival thriller and an alluring sci fi puzzle, Garlands heady gambit confirms hes one of the genres best working filmmaker ..
Indie Wire
5.0
At times, its hard to know whether to swoon or scream a tension that makes this world an intoxicating one to explore, while opening the imagination to ..
Variety
4.0
If it gets to them via some old moves out of the Ridley Scott playbook, so be it.
Time Out
4.0
However, to call it highbrow is both to underestimate audiences and to overstate the films intellectual designs.
The Guardian
4.0
But Annihilation is more than mere visuals and it will shock, fascinate and haunt audiences, whatever screen its watched on.
The Guardian
3.1
The scientists are strong women, for sure, which are always a welcome sight in a wide release American film and would be blockbuster.
5.0
This is a film of ambition and ideas, and part of the exhilaration comes from watching Garland and his cast risk so boldly.
Screen Daily
2.0
0 Alex Garland is hands down one of the most exciting voices we have working in science fiction.
Collider
4.5
Now movies are pliable enough that it may live on as a handful of GIFs and clips of its malevolently lush visuals as a get high and check this out spe ..
Vulture
5.0
To be sure, the climax delivers copious amounts of blood and guts and tension and look away temptations.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.0
A surreal landscape is suggested, but stops short of emphatic realization.
5.0
A science fiction fantasy spiked with baroque horror, Annihilation tells an enigmatic tale of love and death and alien invasion.
The New York Times
2.0
The film is a near impossible bank shot by Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, a would be science fiction actioner that slowly reveals itself to be a m ..
Paste Magazine
3.8
Alex Garlands film may not consistently work as well as it could, but its still a daring and well acted sci fi tale.
IGN
5.0
One might conclude Garland doesnt like us as a species very much, but I think he values our flaws, which make for good drama.
E Film Critic
5.0
With its combination of startlingly effective visual effects, a trippy screenplay that served both as a enormously effective genre narrative a mind be ..
E Film Critic
5.0
Exhilarating and terrifying in equal measure, its an achievement painfully deserving of the exposure its not getting in UK cinemas.
Telegraph
4.5
Maybe thats no accident: This grave, moody, unapologetically cerebral thriller is not without its tortured romantic side.
4.5
Its poignancy, its impossible beauty and its humanism in moments of sheer desperation allow it to transcend a buttoned script.
The Young Folks
5.0
Drawing on mythology and body horror, Annihilation is an intelligent film that asks big questions and refuses to provide easy answers.Sci fi at its be ..
5.0
With its dense themes about human nature and self destruction wrapped into its narrative, and a finale that is clearly designed to promote endless dis ..
Cinema Blend
3.0
Mostly there are questions about what Annihilation wants to say.Is it about an alien takeover
Ny Daily News
4.0
Again, one has to wonder what spooked the studio so much about this, as even if its a shade slower than typical genre fare, it still delivers plenty o ..
JoBlo
3.5
All in all, Annihilation is a thought provoking genre film about humanity that additionally delivers on the thrills and scares typical of sci fi horro ..
Screen Rant
4.4
Which makes Helplessly Hoping and its deft employment the most alien thing in a movie obsessed with aliens, both figurative and literal.
The Globe And Mail
3.8
Simply assault by chromosome, or is there an intelligence behind it
Philly
2.0
The title of the movie indicates the answer, but exactly how the disaster it predicts could happen is something you will have to learnand puzzle outfo ..
One Guys Opinion
4.5
The book thrills and terrifies because it never couches its horrors in backstory or pseudo science.
Village Voice
2.5
Even the horrific attacks feel muted, generic, with the screams of the endangered but emotionally damaged and depressed sounding exhausted and lacking ..
Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
It might not be convincing (I never could take it for real), but it shows how vulnerable we are to the unknown and how chilling a sci fi film can be i ..
Sover
4.4
Yes, its equally unfriendly to audiences interested only in a superficial, visceral experience, but Annihilation has a well defined narrative that off ..
ReelViews
3.0
10 1 9 / 10 Annihilation is the second directorial effort from Alex Garland, who issued Ex Machina in 2015, starting a career thats apparently going t ..
Blu Ray
3.8
Without these two psychological elements, the screen version relies heavily on visual effects that conjure up the books sometimes magical, more often ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
This is something of a rarity for a mainstream science fiction film.
Mark Reviews Movies
4.4
Its a completely bizarre tale that will leave heads spinning about what exactly just happened but still finds a way to be genuinely satisfying.
Usa Today
3.8
The Films of Alex Garland Ex Machina (May 15/15) Alex Garlands directorial debut, Ex Machina follows computer programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) as h ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Despite being suspenseful, the journey to uncover the mysteries is slow and disconnecting primarily due to not giving depth to the minor characters.
You Tube
4.0
A sci fi horror film with a lot more emphasis on the sci fi rather than the horror, and its very good!
You Tube
2.0
Its all a metaphor involving a small group of suicidal women who are sent to on the most a critical planet saving mission. The movie like the mission ..
You Tube
4.5
Annihilation may be the scariest horror film of 2018, or is it too intellectual for audiences
You Tube
3.5
This movie is crazy...I like horror movies, and this movie scared me so, so much.
You Tube
3.0
The kind of film that made me stand around outside the theater as it closed for thirty minutes with my friends talking about it.
You Tube
4.0
A big budget sci fi thriller featuring Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac and a mutant shalligator (part shark, part alligator, all terror) whats not to lov ..
The Times
2.0
It is a kind of thoughtful scientific mystery tour into an otherworldly realm called the shimmer.
Lariat
3.5
Once again, Garland offers a provocative and reflective take on the apocalypse, with better than blockbuster special effects realized on a relatively ..
News Review
4.8
On top of that, its one of the scariest films you will see this year, and should also be classified as a legitimate entry to the horror genre.
News Review
4.5
Whatever the case, I can verify that the material is indeed heady in terms of its sci fi leanings, but it also features enough mystery, dread, action, ..
Screen It
4.4
But Garland is the real deal for generating rattling tension and mind blowing mojo.
Rolling Stone
3.5
But the strongest mood relates to grief and loneliness, something all of the characters exude in distinct ways.
Shadows On The Wall
5.0
The visuals are astounding, and the when the story dives headlong into examinations of self and self destruction, the movie really takes a leap.
Decider
3.5
For all their wonderfully alien sonic elements, Tunng is a band thats human to the core and can interpret the inherent weirdness of life in a way that ..
Pop Matters
4.5
If youre there for the empowering presentation of an all female, racially mixed cast of intrepid scientific professionals played by Natalie Portman, J ..
The Wrap
3.0
Take that, old man!.The pairing of Marx and Engels kept reminding me of something I couldnt quite place.
Cs Monitor
5.0
I worry that the marketing of Annihilation may make it seem a popcorn sci fi adventure, maybe one adapted from a videogame; Downsizing was marketed as ..
Film Journal
3.8
Ambitious and messy, Annhilation will likely leave you with more questions than answers.Mine is: When can I see it again
New York Post
4.5
A great, big IMAX screen would only have helped elevate what is already a stunning film to greater heights.
Hindustan Times
3.8
Annihilation maintains a persistent sense of tension that keeps things compelling and will leave you wondering if you need to see it again (or just go ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
The movie is as gorgeous as it is disturbing, and thats a powerful combination.
Az Central
4.5
Writer director Alex Garland has made an atom bomb of a movie, fiery and all consuming and quite unnatural. It fills every inch of our heads with its ..
Npr
4.4
Great science is about discovery; great sci fi is about artful concealment.
Toronto Star
4.4
Nevertheless, it is still an absorbing, frequently powerful, and at times insightful film that smartly deploys its sci fi trappings to keep us engaged ..
Q Network
5.0
A loose adaptation of Jeff VanderMeers much stranger novel, Annihilation offers a better experience than a story.
Slate
4.0
The result is a visually eerie creative explosion packed full of grand ideas that recall Tarkovskys Stalker, the work of Cronenberg and Kubrick, and t ..
Flim List
4.5
Annihilation does offer enough surreal horror within its visual spectacle to make it worth recommending to sci fi fans, but for all the different inte ..
Film Inquiry
4.0
Concept aside, its Mark Digbys production design and Rob Hardys cinematography that really make the film, along with an atmospheric score...
Eye For Film
5.0
The shimmer is a beguiling, ever moving wall of colour that looks a little like a Van Gough painting with a Monet colour palette.What it represents an ..
3.0
Almost a year passes before he returns, looking bizarrely catatonic and experiencing convulsions.
Susang Ranger
1.3
Annihilation is a demented science fiction comic book of a movie that makes less sense than a butterfly mating with a buffalo.
Observer
4.0
Still, this is superbly crafted sci fi designed to get viewers contemplating its themes rather than give a cut and dry story depicting what weirdness ..
Flickering Myth
3.0
Without pause, Annihilation begs audiences to care less about hows and whys in favor of traumatically superb visuals.
Flickering Myth
5.0
It demands the audience keep up with the scientific explanations while the action keeps hitting at a relentless pace.
Flim Threet
1.0
In this numbingly ludicrous science fiction drama, written and directed by Alex Garland, a talented cast of actors play undeveloped characters deliver ..
New Yorker
2.0
An alien invasion tale recalling the work of J.G. Ballard and Stephen King, Annihilation tells the story of a small group of female soldier scientists ..
Boston Herald
2.0
A shimmering example of what Hollywood sci fi can achieve when the aim is high, Annihilation is a gripping, mystifying adventure and proof that a tran ..
The Film Stage
3.1
Garland makes a valiant go of its concerns, but Annihilation feels like a short story amount of story pulled and twisted into feature length.
Chicago Tribune
4.5
This film is not for everyone.Some may find the pacing too slow, frustrated by a methodical approach to a journey to the heart of something bizarre, d ..
Bullz-Eye
3.1
Garland has a David Cronenberg like flair for metastasized biology, unnatural mutations, and human nature in extremis. But in Annihilation he doesnt s ..
Boston Globe
4.5
Atlanta can be great because you never expect what it might do next.
Uproxx
2.0
Equal parts spectacle and mindf*ck, Annihilation embraces visual storytelling and non literal storytelling in a lean, sci fi classic.
Uproxx
4.0
Those asking where all the clever science fiction has gone need only look at the empty seats around them.
The Irish Times
2.5
The result is a film that has the feel of brainy, high end science fiction, but ultimately neither the underlying structure nor content. Its a shame, ..
The Atlantic
5.0
Every frame is gorgeous and textured, immersive while simultaneously alienating.
Birth Movies Death
5.0
It may lack some of the sparkle of its forerunner, The People v OJ Simpson, but this rather glossy take on the events leading up to the fashion design ..
Standard
2.5
Despite the amazing effects, its shot so darkly that what could have been stunningly beautiful, isnt.
Tony Medley
3.8
Im still sitting here dissecting its pieces, mulling over its ins and outs in ways that arent always entirely satisfying.
Movie Freak
2.0
A beautiful, riveting sci fi mystery that annihilates any notion of what a big budget studio thriller can be.
Detroit News
3.8
We dont get very much thoughtful science fiction these days when its much easier just to give us action and explosions, so a film like Annihilation fe ..
4.5
A review in The Guardian says, Its hugely refreshing, and remarkably uncommon, to watch a genre film that revolves around intelligent characters react ..
Firstpost
4.5
In its tone and stylized look, Annihilation brings to mind Arrival, another recent science fiction film that dabbled in big ideas.
Cnn
5.0
But surprise, surprise the sequel is good, and a vast improvement on the original.
Aisle Seat
4.0
Its superbly acted by its refreshingly female ensemble cast, its well written and its staged as both a deeply introspective journey and an unapologeti ..
Forbes
2.0
Thought provoking, challenging science fiction is increasingly hard to come by, especially within the auspices of studio filmmaking.
Consequence Of Sound
4.5
It is a disturbing film for reasons that are almost metaphysical.
Vox
2.0
In its final, surreal biopsychological moments the movie goes into an astonishing interstellar gear.
The Play List
3.5
Good.Something more beautiful that still looks like you will take its place.
Film Freak Central
3.0
Like Ex Machina, its a study of ordinary people trying to make sense of an extraordinary situation, driven by thoughtful performances and stark, strik ..
Now Toronto
4.5
At the very least its a rock solid, strikingly effective sci fi horror movie constructed with rare skill and absolute commitment to its own guiding et ..
Film Ink
4.0
I think its a movie that deserves several viewings, and your brains whole attention.
Ner Dist
4.5
This is a film that is both disturbing and provocative, leaving viewers to draw their own conclusions.
Maki At The Movies
3.0
The problem Garland introduces, however, comes in the form of contradicting rationalizations in biology and psychology.
4.0
Dont let the sub par efforts of other Netflix offerings fool you this is quality filmmaking for grown ups.
Cine Vue
4.5
Published on Feb 22, 2018 The director of Ex Machina brings us a thinking piece that should cause the audience to question the limits of biological re ..
You Tube
4.5
There is a sequence that is as creepy and terrifying as any sequence Ive seen in the last four or five years.
You Tube
3.5
The visuals in this film it will kick your face in its so gorgeous.
You Tube
2.0
Thats how many intelligent women with guns will be stalked and worse by mutant creatures in a supernatural setting.Garland stages dread and body horro ..
Tamp A Bay
4.5
Lets not concern ourselves too much with the fact that this wonderfully cinematic film can only be enjoyed in the comfort of our own homes for now (it ..
Star Burst Magazine
4.0
It is a visually and thematically rich work that offers plenty of thrills and surprises but few easy answers.
Lw Lies
4.0
So, is it worth a watch triple j Screen Queen, Amelia Navascues asks why the movie didnt even get a day in Aussie cinemas.
Abc
4.0
Garlands nailed the eerie tone, helped by a cast serving up understated performances with often masked motivations thankfully for the audience, they g ..
Flicks
4.0
Annihilation may not leave you satisfied, but if youre not afraid to get a little weird, its a movie you wont forget.
Stl Today
4.4
A science fiction flick thats at once intellectually ambitious and extremely frightening.
Stl Today
4.5
For some, it will be too ambiguous, and for others, not ambiguous enough.But the balance worked for me: Annihilation is the best kind of cinematic exp ..
The Stranger
4.5
But Annihilation isnt just some cold, sterile journey into the inner recesses of one dudes neuroses.
Screen Crush
4.0
What rubbish Annihilation is the thrilling, smart science fiction movie you need in your life and, thanks to Netflix, on your own screen, right now. S ..
Stuff
4.5
Sci fi lovers seeking a good cerebral adventure will enjoy it immensely.
Film Racket
4.5
It is a great science fiction film in which the author takes a step forward regarding what he had already offered us in Ex Machina.
4.5
The best piece of the decade among its contemporaries, and one of the bests in the history of this eternal genre.
1.5
Garland is trying to make a serious, intelligent, complex science fiction movie, but his characters end up being puppets that fall into the traps that ..
3.1
There isnt the sort of thematic aesthetic coherence that a truly great, deep think, sci fi picture needs.
Larsen On Film
4.5
Annihilation murmurs and roars with ideas, a dense and sad and scary inquest into life and self.Its a true cinematic experience.
Vanity Fair
2.0
Movies The Woman Directed Movies To Look Out For At TIFF If you, aspiring cinephile, want to know the Next Big Thing in cinema, then pay attention to ..
Refinery 29
3.0
Which isnt to say that the film doesnt boast plenty of powerful and often disturbing sequences (it does), nor that its mostly female cast dont deliver ..
The Arts Desk
1.0
Something here is making giant waves in the gene pool, says Natalie Portmans Lena, a cell biologist and ex soldier investigating weird events in Annih ..
Wsj
4.4
Its not an idle question, because Garlands science fiction horror thriller has much of the same visual flourishes, intellectual weight and soaring amb ..
Sltrib
4.5
Because just like The Shining, even if you dont want to pull the inner workings of Annihilation apart and find out what it all means, you still have, ..
Film
3.5
The story weaves in and out, too, not just through flashbacks but through moral threads that suggest different plots before coalescing into one.Its an ..
Film
4.4
Existing somewhere within the cinematic otherworld of sci fi meets horror, Annihilation isnt the kind of film that I embrace but, alas, I wholehearted ..
5.0
Annihilation becomes ever more trippy and challenging and thus ever more interesting.
Chicago Sun Times
4.0
Gorgeous, unnerving, and utterly brilliant,will scare the crap out of you just as much as it will make you think.Owing a lot to classic horrors such a ..
Punch Drunk Critics
5.0
It doesnt always fully cohereEx Machina was a much tauter study of human desire.
Straight
3.0
Annihilation is a slow crawl creep show with jolts good enough to send your popcorn airborne.
Movie Web
2.0
This gives Garland a chance to go a little berserk himself with the visuals you may have a hard time looking at molds and fungi for a while, even if y ..
Sandiego Reader
4.5
The film is never boring or non sequitur.You are thoroughly engaged but there are moments that simply confound you.
We Live Entertainment
2.0
But the movies tug of war between thrills and fuzzy philosophical waxing results in something much too close to a zero sum game.
Cinemix Tape
1.5
Garlands Oscar nominated screenplay is full of high minded ideas about consciousness and humanity.
The Ringer
4.5
For a movie that may ultimately be about the need for compromise, Let the Sunshine In doesnt make anyand thats why its Denis at her best.
The Ringer
4.5
The good thing is this is even more of a thinking mans (or, here, womans) sci fi journey that certainly provides the thrills, gore and excitement we h ..
Dead Line
4.5
But it is teeming with so many ideas that it manages to blend elements of these films together while always remaining strikingly inventive and idiosyn ..
Metro New York
5.0
The Shimmer itself is a sight to behold, looking somewhere between a lens flare and light reflecting off of oil.
One Room With A View
4.5
Despite the amazing visuals, Annihilation might be a trippy ride but its a ride that needs to be experienced for oneself.
Solzy At The Movies
4.5
It shouldnt mean that they simply stop taking risks on idiosyncratic filmmakers or that when the results are a movie as unique as Annihilation, they d ..
Flavor Wire
4.0
But Annihilation doesnt disappoint and its confident enough to challenge its audience.
Bitly
5.0
While Annihilation isnt a sequel to Alex Garlands debut film, 2014s Ex Machina, its a spiritual follow up thats bigger in scope.
The Skinny
3.0
Sadly, it would take more than retrofitting one misjudged joke to salvage this dreadful adaptation of Beatrix Potters The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which ..
Scots Man
4.5
Portmans performance is strong, but the rest of the cast feels underused, like the a disposable squad of space marines.
Polygon
4.5
Its one of the most tried and true items in a horror filmmakers bag of tricks, and it often seems like the easy way out.But its deployed to perfection ..
Under The Radar Mag
4.5
Its exciting more in its sheer ambition and its distinctiveness than in its actual action.
The Verge
5.0
Big budget sci fi doesnt come much more incisive, exhilarating and mind blowing than this.
The Daily Beast
4.5
Annihilation, then, may ultimately be too ambiguous for its own good.
The Ooh Tray
4.0
And its good for a change to see oestrogen fuelled heroics in a sci fi movie rather than the genres usual machismo.
What So
4.5
Annihilation is a beautiful film, gracefully paced and filled with original imagery.
reason
4.5
The Shimmer is, itself, little more than a giant, beautiful malignancy on the surface of the world, expanding steadily and without anybody being able ..
Alternate Ending
5.0
Instead, that balance between self contemplation, action, sci fi and horror has the effect of disorienting the viewer even further and it pushes the f ..
Scifi Now
4.5
Annihilation is dense, full of ideas and highly ambitious, and not every one of Garlands gambits pays off, but the sheer scale of what hes attempting ..
Lainey Gossip
3.8
That picture is revelatory in its originality and the excellence of its production design.Annihilation, by contrast, is merely very, very good.
Seattle Times
3.0
The visual effects of some movies color your dreams and make you readjust your expectations of what cinema can do.Im thinking of 2001: A Space Odyssey ..
Guide Live
3.0
The film looks gorgeous, has quality jump scares, and there were some genuinely unnerving and unexpectedly gory moments for fans of horror.
The Mary Sue
3.8
But for those who can climb aboard its wavelength, it will provide enough challenging sights and sounds to clutter the mind and possibly even prompt a ..
Clclt
3.0
Annihilation is filled with terror, massive filmmaking on a grand scale, and it doesnt look down its nose at its genre. Youll be in awe of its wonder.
Fresh Fiction
4.5
Its your ordinary disaster movie/monster mash/environmental nightmare and it moves slowly, until that grand finale.
East Bay Express
4.0
At its best, Annihilation is heady experimental cinema with future cult classic written all over it.At its worst, it drags a little, torn between mark ..
Seven Day Svt
2.0
Time and again, the visual design kept me focused on the screen, and there are some significantly memorable visual set pieces and themes that will pro ..
Black Girl Nerds
4.0
Annihilation is a film that literally doubles down on both its science and its terror.The actors do a good job of inhabiting the twilight zone between ..
National Post
5.0
When Lena destroys the humanoid, all its effectsthe crystal trees, the mutations everywhereburn away in a cleansing fire.Annihilations great achieveme ..
New Republic
4.5
Ive been re working stories for over a quarter of a century and I am well used to the fact that most stories, including stories that I have written, a ..
Original Cin
3.5
These women are more of a suicide squad than the actual Suicide Squad.
Rendy Reviews
4.5
He returns unannounced one day, a changed man with no memory of the details of where hes been.
Third Coast Review
4.5
Definitely fills the void for fans of vague universal doom and evolutionary paranoia.
Blacknerd Problems
1.0
A mutated bear has somehow learned to scream like a woman.As the women get picked off by the killer beasts, the film is on the surface a kind of dista ..
National Review
4.0
Ambition and quiet, forceful grandiloquence impress on the big screen.
New City Film
2.5
When it comes to real comic inspiration, it never passes Go and does not collect $200.
Winnipeg Free Press
2.0
Garland uses luscious, even seductive visuals in the verdant Florida swamp setting to beguile and horrify us, sometimes both at once.
Movie Mom
4.4
A gripping sci fi spectacular thats richly designed and filled with modest philosophical questions.
Cinema Sight
4.5
Even once youve seen Annihilation, you might be hard pressed to say precisely what became of its characters in the final accounting.
Trespass Mag
4.0
An extraordinary work of science fiction that owes a great debt to Tarkovsky.
3.8
Theres an often awkward distance here between Garlands grand ambitions and his mid sized budget visual effects, between VanderMeers immersive imaginat ..
Ap News
3.8
A metaphoric mind bender that will find favor with select moviegoers while absolutely alienating everyone else.
Film Frenzy
3.0
And the frame storyLena tells her debriefers and us what happeneddilutes the suspense and the finales power.
Vue Weekly
5.0
Annihilation doesnt deliver characters with the weight of, say, Alien.
Hollywood Into To
4.0
This is the brand of film that moviegoers should crave: Cerebral in its story and heart stopping in its pacing.
Us Magazine
1.3
Annihilation really isnt worth seeing. Still, if you meet someone who has seen it, have them tell you the good parts.
Sf Chronicle
4.5
Its frustrating and opaque story structure requires active viewing.
Culture
4.5
Annihilation is a shining example of what scifi can be when the narrative hinges on one woman and the world altering decision she must make: Do I save ..
Mid West Film Journal
1.9
You might like this misguided mess of a fantasy if you like movies that keep their secrets so well, for so long, that the stakes lessen and you stop c ..
Tulsa World
5.0
Its excellent, a moviegoing experience unlike anything were likely to see again anytime soon.
4.5
The movie is greatly thought provoking and equal parts elegant and strange, but it often leans heavily into its beautiful weirdness at the expense of ..
Dark Horizons
4.5
But a thoughtful viewer might find themselves more engrossed by the ideas and characters than the moments of creepiness.
Entertainment Voice
4.5
In a cinematic landscape littered with remakes, copycats and formulaic fluff, playing against expectations is almost always a wonderful thing, and eve ..
Bloody Disgusting
5.0
And what ass would that be.The terrifying part of the diseases rampage is that its nothing personal.
Metro Active
3.1
But on a purely visual, and visceral, level, Annihilation is haunting and memorable.
Free Beacon
1.9
As it is, the movie version of Annihilation, though not without its (rare) pleasures, left me cold, struggling to manage my disappointment in the almo ..
Film Festival Today
1.5
Does it have desires or is it simply a wanton force that indifferently spreads genetic nihilism
Denerstein Unleashed Blog ..
3.1
As you might expect, they start dying off one by one and Garland is quite good in building suspense leading up to their tragic denouements, as well as ..
Illinois Times
4.0
Their journey starts with a harmless encounter with mutated flowers but ends with refracted DNA that causes an alien doppelganger thats set to take ov ..
Screen Zealots
4.4
Garland displays an ability to mix big ideas, stunning sci fi, incredible images, and gruesome violence in a way that few can.
Hollywood News
4.4
As these situations so often go, many have entered The Shimmer, but none have returned.
MLive.com
4.5
Not only are the visuals unreal, but it feels almost psychedelic.
Geeks Of Color
3.0
More strange, cryptic, cerebral science fiction that takes multiple encounters to fully unwrap, please.
5.0
The majesty of Annihilation is the time it takes to build the story and to ramp up the tension.While it has no problem with frenetic scenes, the film ..
Dread Central
4.0
A provocative, brainy sci fi/horror spectacle, that lingers for quite some time. Cant wait to see it again.
4.5
A wild and bizarre singular vision from Garland ... and exhilarating if youre here for it. Confounding if youre not.
L.A. Biz
4.0
Between the creatures and the bizarre landscapes within the Shimmer, Annihilation is filled with striking and horrific visuals unlike any science fict ..
FanboyNation.com
3.8
Science fiction taken to a weird core of horror. Insanely weird and visually stunning. .
4.5
Through its ambience, which meticulously accomplishes a blend of dread and wonder, Annihilation skilfully builds up to its super trippy, creepy, and e ..
Entertainment Ie
4.0
Both use their nominal genre for these philosophical pay offs almost as if theyre more parables than actioners.
Patrick Nabarro
4.5
Its heady sci fi horror, with plenty of analogies to ponder, and some truly gorgeous imagery.
Pgh City Paper
4.4
It doesnt always work, but what makessuch a daring work is that it is a major studio release that doesnt feel like it needs to hold its audiences hand ..
From the Front Row
1.5
Packed with delightfully quirky characters and zany plot twists, its far better and more amusing than the trailer would have you believe.
At Home In Hollywood
2.0
Annihilation is a riveting mix of the fantastically beautiful with the horrific and terrifying.
Showbiz Junkies
5.0
The Florida swamp looks like something out of a Disney filmlush greens and rainbow color florabut there are frightening creatures lurking within it.Th ..
Vogue
3.8
It is stunningly beautiful, a vibrant, dripping rain forest swamp overflowing with bright flowers and fungi.
Twin Cities
4.5
A horticultural dream and a zoological nightmare, Garlands terrifying film gets under your skin, leaving lots of unanswered questions. The performance ..
Caution Spoilers
3.0
He has skillfully crafted a science based fantasy with speculative musings and otherworldly horrors.
City Beat
4.5
Annihilation Is Worth All The Fuss It doesnt matter if you see this film in a cinema or on Netflix just make sure you see it.
Junkee
4.5
And thats what makes Annihilation so magical: it functions like a half remembered dream, one that youre trying to tell to those around you.
Film Monthly
4.0
Or because its a masterpiece thats too intellectual to appeal to the masses
Bust
3.0
Terrifyingly beautiful and gorgeously horrific, this lightly plotted sci fi gem is the kind of brilliant nonsense that gives studio executive ulcers a ..
The Reader (Omaha, NE)
5.0
It deserves a huge audience and a huge screen, but I dont think it matters.A film this meticulous and poignant will have a life of its own, because it ..
Gq Magazine
4.0
In many ways, Annihilations extreme violence is the most conventional Hollywood thing about it.Its the rest that makes it so special, and fascinating ..
Student Edge
3.2
Searching B+ Papillon C Arizona C+ Blaze B The Happytime Murders D+ The Wife B+ Crazy Rich Asians C+ Juliet, Naked C+ We The Animals B+ The Miseducati ..
Worldo Free L
2.0
And wait until you see the visually audacious, eye popping, finale which unlike, say 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film Garland has clearly been inspired b ..
Worldo Free L
3.8
Its difficult to delve into the film without picking apart that ending.
812 Film Reviews
4.0
Also, if youre squeamish around knives and navels, bring a blindfold.
What I Watched Tonight
3.5
Ironically though, the tempo of this film is slow do not look for STAR WARS pacing there are a lot of ideas packed into the film.
Leepers Us
4.0
For his follow up to the brilliant Ex Machina, filmmaker Alex Garland has taken Jeff VanderMeers novel Annihilation and adapted it for the big screen, ..
Daily Dead
2.0
Various genus of sprinkle colored moss cakes the landscape, giving it a coat of feral trippiness thats simultaneously beautiful and threatening.
Silver Screen Riot
4.0
Annihilation is a great movie; complex, polyhedral and open to new readings in subsequent viewings.
El antepenúltimo mohicano ..
4.4
When you feel like youve done something worthwhile, you relax a bit.
Brightest Young Things
4.5
Yet, hes acting odd, unsure of where hes been, how long hes been gone and, most importantly, how he got to the house.
KCCI (Des Moines, IA)
0.5
Even as it relies on horror tropes for shape Annihilations mission is to plumb the depths of Lovecraftian existential fear.
Memphis Flyer
2.0
But Garland doesnt appear interested in examining the horrors within.
Mediaversity Reviews
5.0
Unlike most simplistic, tidy, instantly disposable Hollywood sci fi fare, this one doesnt spoon feed. It Kubricks us.
Play Boy
4.5
If theres any pinpoint able problem with Suspiria its that theres not really an emotional protagonist and Swinton, as talented as she is, has trouble ..
Smash Cut Reviews
4.0
A strangely intoxicating mind trip of an adventure that relies more on sound, feel, and sight than it does on providing answers to the perplexing ques ..
Reel Reviews
4.5
Instead, its a trippy sci fi drama that refuses to spell out what audiences should be thinking.
Haaretz
3.5
Butand I find this detail more essential than most criticsthe film spends just as much, if not more, time being an action horror movie, complete with ..
Mubi
4.5
The film is a throwback to a period when sci fi was an oddball genre instead of a dominant and increasingly fan driven one; it heavily references Andr ..
Buzz Feed
5.0
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The Cinema Phile Blog
3.1
After such an intriguing premise and thought provoking themes, the ultimate payoff is admittedly underwhelming here.
Wtop
3.5
A strong second half and climax make it a worthwhile experience for any science fiction enthusiast.
4.0
I admire its sophistication and ability to tell such a human story with so much intelligence, taking on issues of the Anthropocene with a dexterous an ..
The Lonely Film Critic
4.5
Garlands script doesnt afford them much depth, but makes up for it by treating them as intelligent characters who dont make stupid decisions simply fo ..
Gadgets360
3.0
The ending is so exhilarating that it made me forget about every flaw that came before it.
Mad About Movies Podcast
4.5
In the Siberian forest, away from any civilization, a feud is opposing two families whose houses are separated by a river.
Imdb
4.5
DNA Films/Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions Rated R. 115 minutes.
Father Son Holy Gore
5.0
The final reveal doesnt entirely work, which is really the only mark against it.
4.5
Annihilation is now permanently intertwined with my cinematic DNA and I suspect Ill be pondering aspects of this story until the end of recorded time.
Newshub (NZ)
3.5
Fusing elements of Alien, Predator and Arrival, Annihilator is a dark tinged equation whose resolution whets our appetite for the upcoming sequels.
Always Good Movies
4.5
An ambitious film with a fabulous feminine ensemble, solid ideas, diluted in the imperious need to be condescending with the audience.
Butaca Ancha
1.5
But the film builds terror in other ways, some too much for a horror averse viewer.
Eugene Weekly
4.4
The film is strengthened by Garlands strong direction and excellent writing.
We Boughta Blog
4.4
A rousing accomplishment in conceptual and technical creativity, its a rainbow fogged, genre lovers paradise of sheer intoxication and untold horrors.
The Fright File
1.5
No movie delivered spectacle better or more consistently for its running time.
Comicsverse
3.5
Garland creates an atmosphere which feels deliberately distorted and diaphanous, as if we are viewing the world through a soap bubble...
2.0
Annihilation is a darn fine work of science fiction cinema, one that steadily improves as its plot gets increasingly weird, unhurried, and abstract.
3.0
The film intelligently plays between the past and the present, in both cases with exceptional art direction.
La Nación (Costa Rica)
3.0
Its smart, its gorgeous looking, full of great actors and well directed with a uniquely elusive tone between Andrei Tarkovsky, Ken Russell and Alan Mo ..
Geek
5.0
Garlands vision extols each theme with a detailed staging in which it seems that very few things are left to chance.
2.0
Related: If you think Ex Machina is about Avas humanity, you didnt pay attention Article Continues Below A balanced blend of sci fi and horror, Annihi ..
Hypable
3.0
A terrific light show near the end serves as a fitting climax to the colorful mutations weve observed throughout.
Blog Cleveland
4.0
Its got that dreamy, vaguely incomplete feeling that made the first Blade Runner haunt you for ages afterwards.Im not exactly sure what to make of thi ..
Spliced Personality
4.0
TChallas newly appointed title doesnt sit well with Erik Killmonger who believes he should be the new king.
4.0
Annihilation is a fascinating exploration of vibrant and captivating ideas that will challenge filmgoers in the best ways possible.
1.5
The ending, cryptic, meaningless and with the worst CGI of the entire film, buries it all and confirms any doubts; the film is a robbery that looks mo ..
El Universal
3.5
The movie doesnt hold back with some of the surprisingly gruesome and graphic scenes. (
The Movie Blog
1.5
Garland has built a perturbing allegory to process the anxieties of living in a world where the technological links appear to prefer totality over the ..
Letras Libres
4.3
Alex Garlands Annihilation is an excepcional and surreal science fiction film that reflects deeply about life, death and facing otherness with paranoi ..
Código espagueti
3.0
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Podomatic
4.0
Annihilation wont be for everyone, but those willing to give it a chance will be treated with sci fi they can sink their teeth into a la Arrival or Un ..
Buffalovibe
4.8
His talents are perfectly complemented by an extraordinarily talented cast.
4.5
However, even with all of that messiness, the final minute of this film is sheer perfection.Garland blends scifi and human emotion in a way I long to ..
Lenoirauteur
3.0
It is a true masterpiece that is equally enjoyable for both kids and adults.
Crunch On This
4.0
A seriously intelligent, and visually stunning, picture that benefits from its bold structure and dedicated female cast.
The AU Review
3.5
Im Rain Jokinen and I wrote my first movie review at the age of twelve.
Mulling Movies
4.5
Entertainment Weeklys Leah Greenblatt called it a lavish, magnificently unnerving visual feast the kind of film that leaves you dazzled, shell shocked ..
The New Daily (Australia)
1.5
Portman is painfully restrained in the lead role, looking upon biological impossibilities and mutilated corpses with the same distant curiosity.
Riot Material
4.0
Theres a lot of Tarkovsky in Annihilation, too much to be screened on the local multiplex. And thats just one of the virtues of Garlands fascinating s ..
Próxima Tanda
4.5
This film is ambitious, messy, moving, horrifying, and often times incomprehensible. Each layer is slowly revealed until it gets to the glowing center ..
The Movie Sleuth
5.0
For Annihilation is ultimately a cerebral work whose visual beauty, strangeness, heady sound design and sophisticated ideas prove Garland once more to ..
Vod Zilla
3.5
From annihilation comes absolution. You can hardly have one without the other.
2.0
You cant peel your eyes away from the screen for a second or youll miss something spectacular.
Sassymamainla
3.5
Even if the film lives so far inside its own head that it loses sight of its characters, the apocalypse has never looked so beautiful.
Cine Gods
4.5
I dont have much to say on this, because Ive long since accepted that identity is just a figment of our imagination designed to keep us sane.
Review Film Review
2.0
But it offers so much more than that.Its a thrilling, original, relentlessly disquieting existential nightmare of a movie.
Qz
5.0
This is a film that, while gorgeous on a surface level, becomes something far more impressive as the layers are peeled away.
Glas Gow Live
4.5
Garland, well supported by the imaginative production design Mark Digby and the work of five special effects companies, has directed a worthy film of ..
Ernestodiez Martinez
4.5
When you leave the theater, youre left mulling over many different portions.
Hannahhoolihan
1.5
This train wreck substitutes incoherence for cosmic mystery. My advice is to read Jeff VanderMeers novel, watch Alex Garlands first movie Ex Machina, ..
Ars Technica
1.5
However, lacking the emotional heft of those masterpieces, the film collapses under the weight of its narrative hokum.
The Movie Isle
4.5
You cant discuss Annihilation without bringing up its striking visuals.
Goomba Stomp
4.0
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5.0
If all this sounds a little too intellectual for a sci fi night at the movies, know that despite its fine acting and intellectual ambitions, Annihilat ..
Njnext
3.0
RUSS While its thought provoking and involving, this ambiguous story is never quite as gripping as it could have been.
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