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how good a time it was
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how much it moved you
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Read from 51 comments (45 from Metacritic, 6 from TMDB reviews) — 19 of them described how it moves.
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“most plot elements align about half-way through the film”
Repo Jack · TMDB reviews ↗
“There was not a second that I was not constantly reformulating my theories about what was causing the anomaly and what was going to happen next, which is a great experience for a film.”
Nathan · TMDB reviews ↗
“There were certain scenes that had so much tension and were done with some pretty interesting creatures that had me on the edge of my seat.”
Nathan · TMDB reviews ↗
“long scenes that go nowhere”
decatur555 · Metacritic ↗
“a pace that invites more sleep than thought”
decatur555 · Metacritic ↗
“The ending to me was off-putting and a cop-out.”
BigYeedus · Metacritic ↗
Read 26 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“Able to generate dread and awe with equal skill, Annihilation is an absorbing amalgam of genres and influences, all coming together to produce a dazzling creation as vivid as the hybrid life forms our heroes encounter on their perilous journey.”
Tim Grierson, Screen Daily · 100
“Annihilation is mesmerizing and its awe-inspiring conclusion will leave your mind blown and splattered against the wall. In its final, surreal biopsychological moments the movie goes to an astonishing interstellar gear.”
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist · 100
“Garland (adapting a novel by Jeff VanderMeer that is the first of a trilogy) does a masterful job of building the mystery, dropping plot hints like so many bread crumbs, jolting us with “gotcha!” moments.”
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times · 100
“Drawing on mythology and body horror, Annihilation is an intelligent film that asks big questions and refuses to provide easy answers. Sci-fi at its best.”
Jonathan Pile, Empire · 100
“Portman’s high-tension acting, her inability to relax, suits the material down to the ground. It’s one of her best performances, moving through credible grief and bewilderment, but facing up bullishly to her fears by the end, and finding some kind of exhausted resolve to interrogate them.”
Tim Robey, The Telegraph · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 24 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 84, the watch 59
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“long scenes that go nowhere”
decatur555about 33–66% inread it ↗
“a pace that invites more sleep than thought”
decatur555about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The ending to me was off-putting and a cop-out.”
BigYeedusabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“The finale sequence in particular is haunting”
HumblePelicanabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“most plot elements align about half-way through the film”
Repo Jackabout 50–100% inread it ↗
“There was not a second that I was not constantly reformulating my theories about what was causing the anomaly and what was going to happen next, which is a great experience for a film.”
Nathanabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“There were certain scenes that had so much tension and were done with some pretty interesting creatures that had me on the edge of my seat.”
Nathanabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“What does it look like to inferior human beings when an advanced alien race begins terraforming our planet right out from under us? This. This is what it looks like. 6/10.”
Rodney Wollamread it ↗
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