The Contact

  • 1997


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Positive Reviews 22
Negative reviews 3
Average Rating 3.7/5

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3.8
On the summer screen, this sometimes clumsy, always thoughtful, touchingly big spirited production is as close to poetry as Hollywood allows itself to .. EW
4.4
Zemeckis uses special effects to suggest the climactic events without upstaging them. Rogerebert
3.0
If he does a better job of asking them than answering them, that is at least consistent with the scientists creed that the only sin is to be afraid to .. Common Sense Media
1.0
While the movie doesnt qualify as an awful waste of space by any means, it has so many creative black holes, youll have to weigh the entertainment odd ..
2.0
Still, even an enthusiastic numbers cruncher would be taxed by tabulating the truly amazing number of times this serioso mind candy relies on TV talki .. The Hollywood Reporter
3.0
But despite its chug holed narrative and occasionally synthetic feel, Contact artfully strings you along with coy hints of mighty revelations to come.
2.5
When it tries to personify the struggle between skepticism and faith in the relationship between Ellie and her theologian boyfriend, it becomes flat a .. San Francisco Chronicle
2.5
For all the religio political blather herein, this could just as easily have been a silly movie about the pros and cons of abortion as about how to me .. San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
Damascus Cover Tell me your deepest, darkest secret, Olivia Thirlbys photojournalist .. The Escape Heart wrenching but dispassionate, intelligent but ..
5.0
Contact offers an inspired and inspiring close encounter with the ineffable mystery that lies at the heart of each individual and at the core of the m .. Spirituality And Practice
2.8
It relies on its ideas and its convictions to sustain its powerful but soppy story, rather than its special effects. Sover
5.0
In its own unique way, Contact offers a little bit of almost everything: drama, romance, suspense, and science fiction.It touches the emotions and the .. ReelViews
3.1
But this film is no exception to the rule that philosophical debate seldom spawns compelling cinema. Tv Guide
3.8
They just get really big boo boos!.This is off beat, goofy, entertaining summer fun.
5.0
This film is not only thought provoking, it is also effective on an emotional level, something equally rare in science fiction.There were a couple of .. Lariat
3.8
It is unusual for a summer blockbuster to inspire much actual debate. Eric Ds Nider
3.8
Despite such missteps, however, the finale is actually quite satisfying, which is imperative to a film like this, and most of the way the film is comp .. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
Contact opens with one of the most beautiful sequences ever created on film.
4.4
Sicario: Day of the Soldado Throughout Sicario: Day of the Soldado, characters talk about things needing to be clean, which pretty much means that a l .. Q Network
4.0
Best of all, the film balances characterisation with the adventure of space discovery, and harnesses advanced filmmaking techniques for the best possi ..
2.0
It proceeds very slowly through many banal deliberations about cosmic enigmas to a comfortably reassuring conclusion in which scientific humanism and .. Time
5.0
Heres hoping that next time around the filmmakers will take a lesson from its hero in the comic and go for the kill. Mr Brown Movies
3.8
It doesnt dumb down the science involved and it poses complex questions while still spinning a compelling story. Spliced Wire
4.4
Jodie Foster is great, and Zemeckis knows how to use film technology without compromising a storys humanity, but the real star of Contact is its autho .. Movie Habit
3.1
Contact is not a bad film, but I cant say its all that good either.Youve got some great moments and an intriguing, haunting last act, but most of the .. Montreal Film Journal
3.0
At the heart of this unwieldy but intriguing entertainment is a primal sense of cosmic curiosity that all but the most cynical will find hard to resis .. News Week
4.4
What if the aliens dont come to us, but instead sends us instructions on how to go to them Scifi Movie Page



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