Alex Garland
In this dreamworld, the politics don’t matter. It’s the artfully gruesome spectacle that counts — that and the hackneyed Hollywood storyline about the hardened veteran mentoring the neophyte through an initiation into the harsh realities of the profession.
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I wish I could state unequivocally that this is a film perfect for this moment in time, and perhaps it is. But not in a good way.
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Annihilation wants to be a big movie about big ideas — what we get is a flawed impersonation of one.
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Film Commentary: Zombie Apocalypse, Re-Imagined — The Legacy of “28 Days Later”
Where is the grandiose zombie apocalypse that illuminates the grotesque reality of the death-denying yet death-obsessed beings we’ve become? Ralph Fiennes knows.
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