It's an exploration of the weight of our own mistakes. How the choices we make, and the things we can't change, fundamentally change us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2018

Annihilation is a visceral sensory experience that chills the blood and makes the skin crawl (literally), leading to a bravura conclusion that would make Tarkovsky proud and any jaw drop.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 25, 2018

Absorbing and hypnotic, Annihilation is the best kind of sci-fi film - the kind that challenges and subverts the genre, all the while introducing new ideas that you'll see in films to come.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2018

It's certain that the astonishing special effects would have worked better on a larger cinema screen, and it's a shame to lose their impact. But the dialogue is clunky and the plot disjointed.

| Mar 26, 2018

The more familiar aspects of Annihilation are enlivened by the entirely female dynamic, who seldom conform to simplistic group archetypes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2018

An exciting, imperfect genre success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2018

Gina Rodriguez steals the show with a standout performance.

| Mar 16, 2018

It's audacious stuff, topped by a lovely twist ending, and deserving of more than a casual skim through on an iPad.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2018

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 best.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 13, 2018

Portman's high-tension acting, her inability to relax, suits the material down to the ground. It's one of her best performances ...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 12, 2018

This sci-fi/horror hybrid is brainy, challenging, and experimental. Those shouldn't be dirty words.

| Mar 9, 2018

Top-notch sci-fi and a chilling allegory for humanity's capacity for self-destruction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2018

Here as in Ex Machina (2015), Garland's creative élan comes from his merging of sleek conceptual art and messy, juicy drama.

| Mar 2, 2018

Garland's version is a worthy mutation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 2, 2018

"You don't get it" is a more strategic posture than "Nothing to see here." But the latter is where I ended up, exhausted by the journey and bored by its conclusions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2018

Making movies steeped in vagueness these days is proving to be an excellent way to earn critical praise, but being artfully ambiguous strikes me as a way to cover for not being able to finish the job.

| Feb 28, 2018

Annihilation's commitment to older psychoanalytic (and deconstructionist) models for the self and its inexpressible shadows makes this a readily accessible drama of emotion.

| Feb 27, 2018

Annihilation is some heady nightmare fuel, but its most striking quality may be how little it has in common with the current trends in mainstream science fiction.

| Feb 26, 2018

The kind of film that made me stand around outside the theater as it closed for thirty minutes with my friends talking about it.

| Original Score: A | Feb 26, 2018

Annihilation is a thing of immense beauty and intoxicating complexity.

| Feb 26, 2018