The early buzz on Alex Garland’s “Annihilation” was strong, but the official first reviews are even stronger. Paramount has lifted the review embargo on Garland’s latest science-fiction drama, and film critics are comparing the film to the likes of Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, and Darren Aronofsky, among other auteurs who have mastered the art of mind-bending genre films.
IndieWire’s own Eric Kohn called “Annihilation” a “stunning science-fiction thriller” in his A- review. “Garland’s cinematic interpretation plays more like ‘Alien’ by way of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!'” he says of the film. “It’s a horror show in which the survivors’ prospects are dim, but they’re consumed by an environment of ethereal beauty, and Garland makes it clear that those two variables can coexist.”
“Annihilation” stars Natalie Portman as a biologist who joins a mission into an environmental disaster zone in order to...
IndieWire’s own Eric Kohn called “Annihilation” a “stunning science-fiction thriller” in his A- review. “Garland’s cinematic interpretation plays more like ‘Alien’ by way of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!'” he says of the film. “It’s a horror show in which the survivors’ prospects are dim, but they’re consumed by an environment of ethereal beauty, and Garland makes it clear that those two variables can coexist.”
“Annihilation” stars Natalie Portman as a biologist who joins a mission into an environmental disaster zone in order to...
- 2/21/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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