Annihilation

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Annihilation

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2018

1h 55m

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

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Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X -- a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscapes and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.

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Annihilation backs up its sci-fi visual wonders and visceral genre thrills with an impressively ambitious -- and surprisingly strange -- exploration of challenging themes that should leave audiences pondering long after the end credits roll.

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Robert Daniels

812filmreviews

It's an exploration of the weight of our own mistakes. How the choices we make, and the things we can't change, fundamentally change us.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 27, 2018

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Kambole Campbell

One Room With A View

Annihilation is a visceral sensory experience that chills the blood and makes the skin crawl (literally), leading to a bravura conclusion that would make Tarkovsky proud and any jaw drop.

Rated: 5/5

Aug 25, 2018

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Wenlei Ma

News.com.au

Absorbing and hypnotic, Annihilation is the best kind of sci-fi film - the kind that challenges and subverts the genre, all the while introducing new ideas that you'll see in films to come.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 27, 2018

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Isabella Liistro

Loud and Clear Reviews

The brilliance of Annihilation is that it encourages conversation, it makes your brain itch whether you’re on your first, second, or third viewing.

Jan 18, 2025

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Justin Kim

Loud and Clear Reviews

Masterfully mind-bending, Annihilation will draw you back in again and again, even when you might not understand exactly what happened.

Rated: 5/5

Jan 6, 2025

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Martin Carr

martincarr.co.uk

Annihilation does everything it can to side-step mainstream expectations. Distributed by Paramount Pictures and streamed by Netflix, this hybrid tentpole sci-fi adapted and directed by Alex Garland reflects the changing face of cinema.

Nov 5, 2024

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*SPOILER* I understood it but didn't. I felt empathy for the creation and I thought a lot of it was beautiful, possibly some of the parts others think is gross. It is still alive as it clearly changes form which it knew it would. It desires but it does not want for example I desire a new start but I do not want a new start as this may not be possible and therefore I am content to just be, in whatever form as I know I exist and I will always exist and this is enough. I thought the scientists were silly to think the new creation dead. The ending to me implied that their DNA became intermingled with the creation which symbolises the 'Shimmer' field becoming part of the world (although now no longer visibly different) instead of covering an enclosed space that was gradually expanding. I see this as more possibly more detrimental to the planet (as we know it) in the long run as we can no longer see the expansion visibly.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/23/25

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Vasiliu A

I enjoyed the mystery and the originality that embodied assimilation true evolution or involution, the alien human like figure wanted to embodiment of all creature as one reducing to on top omega being for what reason clearly remained a mastery, but the bear was a proof of what would have become of it if it wasn't terminated a slightly evolution but with a beast figure . I enjoyed everything and the sound effect and music background where top...

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/23/25

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Ken W

Almost really good, just too slow and confusing. Close to Alien level.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/01/25

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jay B

Great effects, very trippy movie and a great thriller, but sometimes was slow, but I liked it definitely unique and gorgeous. Didn’t feel like a copy of something I’ve seen before.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/31/25

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Leaburn O

A really interesting premise that’s well acted and with great production but it’s incredibly slow to unravel. Unfortunately the slow pace is not worth the pay off. Watched on Amazon Prime.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/17/25

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Scott E

It sucked. Not pleasant. Cool effects but bad vibes.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/04/25

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Anya Thorensen

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Annihilation: Official Clip - Josie's Refraction

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Annihilation: Official Clip - The Shimmer Speaks

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Annihilation: Official Clip - The Humanoid

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Annihilation: Official Clip - Found Footage

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Annihilation: Official Clip - Cosmic Birth

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Annihilation: Official Clip - The Mutant Bear

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Annihilation: Official Clip - Albino Alligator Attack

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Annihilation: Official Clip - A Bear in the Cabin

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Annihilation: Official Clip - The End of Us

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Annihilation: Official Clip - The Fungal Horror

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Synopsis

Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X -- a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscapes and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.

Director: Alex Garland
Producer: Scott Rudin, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Eli Bush
Screenwriter: Alex Garland
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: DNA Films, Scott Rudin Productions
Rating: R (Language|Bloody Images|Some Sexuality|Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 23, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 22, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.7M
Runtime: 1h 55m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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