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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 07 Aug 2013

Like District 9, an allegory of apartheid that took four Oscar nods and put Blomkamp on the map, Elysium delivers sci-fi without dumbing it…

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By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 07 Aug 2013

Despite some terrific action scenes, Elysium is held back by its predictable plot, questionable casting and overly glossy presentation…

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By Steve Tilley (62) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 07 Aug 2013

Despite a fertile premise about the 1% of the 1% living on a pristine space station orbiting above earth's teeming and impoverished masses,…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out London (344) on 07 Aug 2013

This is a messy, poorly structured film, riddled with plot holes and lacking any kind of satisfying conclusion…

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By Michael Sauter (58) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 Aug 2013

Because yes, along with a very topical, deeply resonant theme and premise, Elysium has a hurtling momentum, with enough boom-crash-splatter…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 07 Aug 2013

Kudos to Blomkamp for not shying away from social issues in his films, but here the execution doesn’t live to the intentions…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 07 Aug 2013

It’s a letdown, but this director’s still a talent to be reckoned with…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 07 Aug 2013

For all its simple politics, clanging dialogue, and underwritten roles—only Damon’s natural, and deepening, ability to suggest unspoken…

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By Rob Nelson (320) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 07 Aug 2013

What's great about Elysium is that it invites and even encourages discussion and debate while delivering proficiently at the levels of plot,…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 Aug 2013

A high-low tension runs through Elysium, not only in the narrative itself, but in Blomkamp’s own cinematic language, which can be lofty one…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 07 Aug 2013

Neill Blomkamp is the real thing: a visionary filmmaker with a headful of dystopia and the story-telling ability to give it some punch…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 07 Aug 2013

The action is bludgeoning…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Aug 2013

One of Blomkamp’s most unlikely conceits is a machine – apparently standard-issue in all of Elysium’s made-to-order McMansions – that…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 06 Aug 2013

the sort of science fiction thriller some of us have been craving all summer only to see one film after another fall short…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 06 Aug 2013

captivated me with its depiction of a not-so-far-off future and the technology that governs it…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 06 Aug 2013

A great-looking entertainment that could have reached new classic status with a longer cut that allowed the characters to breathe, expand and deepen…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for ScreenAnarchy (469) on 06 Aug 2013

In the end these grand ideas are no more than a gaudy collection of intellectual set dressing, more distracting than genuinely intriguing…

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By Victoria Alexander (762) for Las Vegas Informer (90) on 06 Aug 2013

An extremely engaging sci-fi thriller with a director's strong point of view on the caste system. Should be seen twice…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 06 Aug 2013

Decidedly more thought-provoking than most big-studio summer fare…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Aug 2013

I wish that the film had more of the tasty futuristic detail promised by that dummy parole officer…

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