Another Earth is quite a gem in a lot of ways, but wrapped in an enigma. It's a very sophisticated approach to a familiar theme.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 8, 2017

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2011

At its best, it is original and affecting, and one of the best American independent efforts at this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2011

A strange, gloomy, moderately acted damp squib of a movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2011

Another Earth's central performances and ideas all impress, as does its pulsing, electronic soundtrack.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2011

The camerawork and acting are both "handheld": wobbly, ill-focused, exploratory, uncertain where to go next.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 8, 2011

Full of promise. Keep an eye on Cahill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2011

Cahill's visually inconsistent first feature tries to beam epic sci-fi concepts into a micro-human drama, refracting its thought-provoking ideas through the prism of the central emotional relationship.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2011

It may be too lo-fi for some tastes but it sparks the brain and moves the heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2011

The result is an alluring image -- Earth above Earth -- a wrenching story and a wonder-tinged film.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 12, 2011

In emphasizing poetry over plot, mood over mechanics, Another Earth fails to answer the most pressing question of all: Umm, why haven't the tides been affected?

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 12, 2011

I was hoping that everyone involved would get hit by an asteroid.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2011

Anyone who can explain the final shot deserves a refund.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2011

Shaky science fiction shacks up with a corny redemption tale in this Sundance Film Festival double award-winner.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 5, 2011

A stripped-down sci-fi indie that made waves at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 4, 2011

It's a film that brims with talent and ideas; it stays with you for a while after you watch it, like the way a shadow lingers on a now-quiet road.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2011

Instead of a fleet of Evil Kirks descending on us in souped-up space shuttles, we get a quietly moving parable of redemption.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2011

The metaphysics function as a metaphor in what's an affecting -- if slow-moving -- drama about having to live with the choices we make and our need to find redemption.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2011

It's one of the year's best indie releases.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2011

There are a number of astronomical impossibilities here. What about gravity? What's orbiting what? And where exactly did it come from?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2011