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Summary

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?

Director
Steven Spielberg

Writer
David Koepp

Cast

  • Emily Blunt
  • Josh O'Connor
  • Colin Firth
  • Colman Domingo
  • Eve Hewson
  • Wyatt Russell
  • Noah Robbins

Rotten Tomatoes: 81%

Metacritic: 75

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

It was... ok.

Maybe I've just been watching too many vfx breakdowns on YouTube, but I found them disappointing in this. The animals and the car / train scene in particular.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Is this really was just a modernized re-telling of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, except not as good?

[–] lath@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

No. The opposite does. We're too dumb to succeed, so when we unavoidably off ourselves, no one would be there to pick up the slack.