Easily, one of the most original and exciting science fiction films of the last 20 years. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2025

Blomkamp doesn’t miss a step. His film is cynical, funny, smart, exciting, and satirical—all without losing his audience’s involvement in the scenario.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 4, 2023

District 9 might not be a classic like Alien or ‘The Terminator’ (not many films are), but it’s still an effective sci-fi film with depth and style.

| Jun 5, 2023

Funny and ferocious, cynical and satirical, "District 9" is both ingeniously clever and reflectively thoughtful, a science fiction thriller that bubbles with social commentary.

| Apr 26, 2022

I don't think the film is the epic reevaluation of science-fiction storytelling like some people have hailed it to be. But I do think it's a solid smart sci-fi action flick that's honest to its characters

| Jan 10, 2022

One of the most creative and exciting science-fiction adventures in the last decade.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Amid the mayhem, however, it's impossible to lose sight of the film's penetrating satire on racism and xenophobia.

| Nov 23, 2020

FEELS oppressed and this oppression permeates virtually every single minute of the film's 112-minute runtime.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

It's a genuinely impressive debut feature and unlike the singular experience of Cloverfield's faux-reality, District 9 has narrative, plus thematic weight and visceral thrills, which elevate it above the gimmick of the reality format.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2019

It is without a doubt that District 9 will be a hit.

| Oct 9, 2019

Copley is never a believable protagonist, and his transformation isn't very believable. About the only interesting cast members are the CGI aliens.

| Original Score: C+ | May 16, 2019

If someone asked me what I could offer them to convey the "mission statement" of science fiction, I would hand over a copy of District 9 without thought.

| Jan 14, 2019

Part found footage (or just footage), part mockumentary, part satire and part action; Blomkamp pulls it into a coherent, moving, violent, sci fi allegory. Copley is terrific as Wikus moving from species-ist opportunist to a genuine if gormless redemption.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 17, 2018

There are lots of great odd details filling the early scenes, suggesting we're not getting all the cultural references, that make for exciting film-watching.

| Nov 14, 2018

The only thing saving the story is an astonishingly impressive performance from Copley. His every incarnation as Wikus-first as a cheerful, if incompetent suit, then as a pathetic xenophobe, to finally a self-sacrificing warrior-rings true.

| Nov 14, 2018

I won't tell you to rush out and see it, but in these days of sequels and remakes, this was an interesting original.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 14, 2018

Neill Blomkamp has made an instant science fiction classic. From beginning to end, the thrills magnify, intensify into a horrific drama that will live for the ages.

| Jan 2, 2018

I don't know guys, at the end of the day it's aliens and hard for me to take this seriously.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

It is a sign of intelligent filmmaking when those crafting the movie realize that less is more. Real artists show restraint.

| Aug 11, 2017

It has become almost impossible to make a sci-fi film these days that doesn't spend its last 30 minutes in a multiple-orgasm roar of screaming, shooting and shattering explosions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2016