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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 17 Apr 2015

Anyone who watches District 9 and doesn't think of Apartheid, Nazis, and Josef Mengele needs to spend some time reading a few history books…

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By Chris Hewitt (1) (113) for Empire (3,446) on 23 Feb 2015

Blomkamp’s prawn cocktail has more than enough stylistic chutzpah and originality to make District 9 an essential date…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Feb 2015

District 9 is very smart sci-fi, but that's just the beginning; it's also a scathing social satire hidden inside a terrific action thriller…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Feb 2015

Though compelling throughout, District 9 never becomes outright terrifying, largely because Blomkamp is less interested in exploiting his aliens…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 02 Jan 2015

In the best B-movie tradition, the filmmakers embed their ideas in an ingenious, propulsive and suspenseful genre entertainment, one that respects…

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By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 24 Aug 2014

For a movie rife with violence and disturbing imagery, District 9 has a guiding spirit that's surprisingly sweet and even hokey…

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By Mal Vincent (128) for The Virginian-Pilot (129) on 24 Aug 2014

Phone home, E.T., and while you're at it, you might ask for extraterrestrial help for the persecuted aliens being evacuated from District 9…

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By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 24 Aug 2014

A smart sci-fi about a group of alien refugees who come to Earth and are imprisoned in an internment camp…

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By Tom Charity (192) for CNN.com (607) on 24 Aug 2014

It's a brashly confident debut, full of sharp, inventive detail (the prawns are crazy for cat food) and rooted in a couple of Big Ideas…

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By Michael Smith (475) for Tulsa World (603) on 24 Aug 2014

District 9 made me think, and it made me jump. This cool science-fiction thriller pumps up the tension to wow-factor levels…

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By Alan Frank (7) for Daily Star (403) on 24 Aug 2014

This extraordinary science-fiction thriller doesn't settle into a standard Tinseltown orbit…

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By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 24 Aug 2014

Blomkamp seems to want to invoke the memory of South African apartheid into the confusion, but he doesn't know how…

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By Catherine Jones (104) for Liverpool Echo (161) on 24 Aug 2014

It's remarkable for a first-time feature film director to keep a tight rein on all these elements and meld them with such dynamism and style…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 24 Aug 2014

District 9 has so much potential and seems ready to engage with so many ideas that it's disappointing when it turns out to be nothing more…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 23 Mar 2014

Yes, the premise is delightful; no, the delight doesn't last…

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By Jason Buchanan (161) for TV Guide (1,527) on 03 Aug 2013

Every once in a great while -- perhaps only a handful of times each decade -- that rare film comes completely out of left field to let us know…

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By Chris Stamm (4) for Willamette Week (516) on 03 Aug 2013

District 9's skid into rote convention is matched by a retreat from the documentary conceit that so expertly delivered us into this strange…

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By Corey Hall (192) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 03 Aug 2013

This stunning mindbender of a movie attempts to prove that science fiction can handle the heftiest allegorical payloads, even the appalling…

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By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 28 Jun 2013

Ghee whiz, how abusive can you get with a movie camera…

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By Will Leitch (411) for Deadspin (356) on 21 Jun 2013

This is an excellent idea searching for a film worthy of it. This ain't it…

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