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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 13 Aug 2009

The wildest science-fiction film to come out all year…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 13 Aug 2009

Taking a traditional sci-fi approach, Blomkamp examines contemporary society through a new prism…

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By Amy Biancolli (582) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Aug 2009

Every now and then, a film comes along that both defies and compels description…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 13 Aug 2009

About the only way District 9 - a bloody marvelous action movie that's part science-fiction allegory and part unabashed mayhem - could get…

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By Tom Keogh (466) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 13 Aug 2009

The film all but gets away from [the director] as battles take over and opportunities to explore the story as more than the sum of its weapons…

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By Steve Crum (868) for Video-Reviewmaster.com (514) on 13 Aug 2009

If sensitive, intelligent, and cat food craving creatures whose heads look like transplants from the 'Star Wars' cantina scene is by itself…

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By Daniel Engber (4) for Slate (2,081) on 13 Aug 2009

As an allegory of racial conflict and mass immigration, District 9 never really goes anywhere: The appealing premise fades into the background…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 13 Aug 2009

You've seen alien invasion flicks before, and you've seen more than your share of summer blockbusters…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 13 Aug 2009

This might go down as the year that science-fiction cinema, despite the deafening crash and clangor of sparring robots, began to rediscover…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 13 Aug 2009

The ad campaign for the sci-fi thriller District 9, with mysterious billboards touting aliens among us, is highly creative and amusing…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 13 Aug 2009

District 9 proves that genre films, besides being a hell of a lot of fun, can say things you hadn't considered and show stuff you haven't seen…

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By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 13 Aug 2009

District 9 succeeds brilliantly as an exercise in style, but the style promises a level of substance the film never quite delivers…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 13 Aug 2009

In a summer where toy robots and action heroes have rocked the box office and killed brain cells, it's nice to see a movie where some serious…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Aug 2009

A sci-fi-fueled indictment of man's inhumanity to man -- and the non-human -- District 9 is all horribly familiar, and transfixing…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 13 Aug 2009

In District 9, racism provides the white guy with a very special growth experience…

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By Ross Anthony (612) for Hollywood Report Card (612) on 13 Aug 2009

Monty Python-esque. Reminded me a bit of the Stormtrooper spoof on TV's Cops…

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By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 13 Aug 2009

For 85 minutes, District 9 is a thinking creature's action film, but its final brain-numbing half hour sacrifices most of that logic for loud…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 13 Aug 2009

For every person who walks out of the cineplex complaining that they want to see something different and original…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Aug 2009

District 9's City of God meets War of the Worlds hybrid proves overbearing and under-convincing…

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By Kimberly Gadette (432) for Indie Movies Online (213) on 13 Aug 2009

The first half is great: original, well-paced, superb production design…

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