You don’t feel bamboozled, fooled, or patronized by District 9, as you did by most of the summer blockbusters. You feel winded, shaken, and shamed.
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09/07/09
District 9 (2009)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:31
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction classic.
Theatrical Release:Aug 14, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $115,646,235
Synopsis: Genre master Peter Jackson produces this science-fiction film, the directorial debut of Neill Blomkamp. In District 9, South Africa has become a haven for refugees--from outer space. [More]
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka
Director: Neill Blomkamp
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Reviews for District 9
Top CriticTo call this the best shrimp-from-outer-space South African apartheid allegory ever made does not begin to do it justice. But it’s a start.
08/17/09
Top CriticThis is a great movie.
08/17/09
Top CriticWhat an achievement in filmmaking.
08/17/09
Top CriticThe backstory beats the hell out of the present-tense plot, a routine affair in which a well-meaning doofus working for the Man is infected with a virus, starts turning into an alien himself, and falls in with the oppressed creatures.
08/14/09
Top CriticIn this summer of gargantuan mediocrities, a modestly budgeted project with an actual idea in its head, and the wiles to manifest it onscreen, exploding heads and all -- that’s something.
08/14/09
Top CriticA memorable, monstrous fable that's consistently gripping.
08/14/09
Top CriticThe movie falls into the same uneasy category as Eight Legged Freaks: too tongue-in-cheek to be thrilling, not funny enough to be a comedy.
08/14/09
Top CriticThe wildest science-fiction film to come out all year.
08/14/09
Top CriticIn a good summer, there's usually a movie that will come out of nowhere and completely wow us. This is a good summer, and that movie is District 9.
08/14/09
Top CriticEvery now and then, a film comes along that both defies and compels description.
08/14/09
Top CriticThe fresh premise over, the stale action returns.
08/14/09
Top CriticYou've seen alien invasion flicks before, and you've seen more than your share of summer blockbusters. But you've never seen anything quite like District 9.
08/14/09
Top CriticThis might go down as the year that science-fiction cinema, despite the deafening crash and clangor of sparring robots, began to rediscover its brains, heart and soul.
08/14/09
Top CriticIf you're looking for the late-summer special-effects action fantasy with big franchise potential, forget about G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. (You already forgot? Fine.) Instead, proceed directly to District 9.
08/14/09
Top CriticDistrict 9 succeeds brilliantly as an exercise in style, but the style promises a level of substance the film never quite delivers.
08/14/09
Top CriticIn 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 thought has been put into reviving a stale genre.
08/14/09
Top CriticThere's a wonderfully sly, farcical verve to these early moments, but it dissipates when the script, with its strains of E.T. and The Fly, moves into high sci-fi gear.
08/14/09
Top CriticDistrict 9 proves that sci-fi thrillers don't have to be star-studded or mega-budgeted to be visually compelling and thoroughly entertaining.
08/14/09
Top CriticA sci-fi-fueled indictment of man's inhumanity to man -- and the non-human -- District 9 is all horribly familiar, and transfixing.
08/14/09
Top CriticLatest News for District 9
October 23, 2009:
Blomkamp Gets to Work on District 9 Follow-Up 
Few details are known about the project, but director Neill Blomkamp has signed a deal that will give him creative control over his untitled follow-up to "District 9." More...
September 03, 2009:
Neill Blomkamp talks District 9 - RT Interview
District 9 heralds the arrival of 29-year-old South African-born director Neill Blomkamp as a major new voice in science-fiction. Infused with gritty, hand-held authenticity,... More...
August 28, 2009:
Neill Blomkamp Teases District 9 Sequel, Prequel
Now that "District 9" is officially a hit, it's time for Neill Blomkamp to hit the publicity trail -- and answer the inevitable questions about a sequel and/or prequel. CHUD has... More...
August 17, 2009:
Sharlto Copley Talks District 9
He's a first-time actor with the #1 movie in the country. How good is life for Sharlto Copley right now? Watch his recent interview with Collider to find out. More...
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