Entertaining, thoughtful, and audaciously unsettling ... I can’t remember ever seeing an alien invasion movie that felt this tangibly real since Arrival

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2024

Sort of Interesting, Sort of Dull

| Apr 24, 2024

An offbeat sci-fi romantic comedy drama with fitting social commentary but grappling with an uneven narrative pulse.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 27, 2023

Just an absolute mess of a sci-fi satire that never finds a footing with its characters or its ideas leaving its actors floundering to find anything funny or dramatic to play off of because it certainly is not each other.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 25, 2023

More depressing than insightful or entertaining.

| Original Score: C | Sep 13, 2023

If only Finley’s command of the visual side of the material — like the comical way the Vuvv communicate by rubbing their paddle-like flippers — was matched by the emotional control.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2023

It's all rather cleverly worked out and there's enough here to draw on. Certainly from a young adult level there's something to see here, but it tries to too much in too many different ways. I give them points though for creating aliens that [look new].

| Sep 7, 2023

Landscape with Invisible Hand has moments that come close to succeeding, but not with the same confidence Finley has shown in the past.

| Sep 3, 2023

Landscape With Invisible Hand wastes the reputation of the YA novel it adapts and the charm of stars Asante Blackk and Kylie Rogers, devolving into a cinematic lecture on economic stratification and celebrity worship.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 31, 2023

This is ultimately the sort of movie you expect to fit into one or two genres, but it takes a turn and does something unexpected instead.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2023

Once you get past the aliens’ appearances, it’s easy to be mesmerized by the film at large, which is a sweeping and heartfelt examination of colonization, voyeurism, capitalism, and humanity.

| Aug 26, 2023

Playwright-turned-filmmaker Cory Finley returns with another of his queasy delights.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2023

It’s a lovely little film, and features two great performances from Blackk and Haddish.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2023

The movie's themes stay close to the surface and Landscape doesn't quite attain breakthrough velocity. Its amusements may be intermittent but they're enough to keep things going.

| Aug 24, 2023

When H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds, the intent was to give his British readers an idea what it would be like to be invaded by a superior force. Since then, there have been many such stories but none quite like Landscape with Invisible Hand.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 23, 2023

Landscape with Invisible Hand is a piece of knowing absurdism that may not always form a coherent narrative, but hits the nail on the head emotionally.

| Aug 22, 2023

The visual ingenuity director Cory Finley demonstrated in Thoroughbreds and Bad Education is on display here, but the sci-fi satire lacks an Anya Taylor-Joy, Hugh Jackman, or Geraldine Viswanathan to ground its lofty aims and urgent message.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 22, 2023

If you took the aliens out of the equation this would be a much better film. Still, I must embrace the quirkiness of Finley’s third feature. The cast is solid and If you’re a fan of offbeat cinema, this is your ticket.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2023

A slyly subversive sci-fi satire that packs a sensory kick.

| Aug 21, 2023

Though tonally inconsistent and weighed down by taking on too many satirical targets at once, [it's] redeemed by a loose, limber style...an oddly engaging if somewhat perplexingly episodic ride into a dystopian future.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 21, 2023