Made with only a fraction of your average Star Wars or Marvel movie, but does so much with (relatively little). Sam Rockwell is just fantastic given that he’s largely in the film on his own. A tremendous sci-fi movie.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 24, 2022

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Simple and alien-free example of the sci-fi genre. Slow, but there are so many details deserving attention, the chance to take them all in one only enhances the experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2010

Moon is an old-fashioned sci-fi movie in the best sense: far more psychological drama than space opera, dispensing with overweening CGI and loud flashy action sequences while harking back to subtler, more ideas-driven entries in the genre.

| Jul 6, 2010

While some of it is clearly inspired by other material, director Jones spins this yarn into something unique and fresh and new and exhilarating.

| May 6, 2010

A well-assembled sci-fi thriller.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2009

Moon actually gets a little dull in the later reels, just when it should be peaking in mystery and tension.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2009

This is science fiction at its stimulating best.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2009

By halfway the film starts to feel like a mere exercise, one more effort to get maximum value from limited resources. Too much machinery, not enough dread.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2009

There might even be a touch of his father in there -- ''your circuit's dead, there's something wrong, can you hear me, Major Tom?'' It is a well-built, concentrated movie with a brain and a purpose.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 8, 2009

Making a smart genre film is a house of cards. Of Moon's praiseworthy elements, I am most impressed with this: for a movie so rich and complex, it is wonderfully simple.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Aug 11, 2009

Moon is a gripping sci-fi tale, but also has a lot of heart and humanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2009

This is a defiantly British film. It's one we can be proud of - in moderation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009

They do make 'em like they used to - a fresh blast of old-school sci-fi, bursting with ideas and a stellar turn from Rockwell.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2009

The film is not entirely logical, but it raises pleasing questions and looks beautiful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009

A heartfelt, if self-consciously derivative drama of human loneliness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Psychedelic sci-fi? Glam rock goes off-world? No: wordy and overwrought like a radio play in space.

| Jul 17, 2009

An indie sci-fi movie? That's what the director Duncan Jones has put together, to mostly inspired effect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009

With its measured pacing, melancholy tone and eye for prosaic details, Moon is very different from the glossy sci-fi blockbuster - and far more satisfying.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2009

It's not fair to say that the film runs out of steam towards the end, because it remains crisp and unpredictable, but it does have the feel of an addictive Outer Limits episode finding ways to stretch itself over the feature-length mark.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009