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(1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 87% Fresh Page   1   3.5/5 "Moon is the kind sci-fi film you rarely see any more; subtle and intelligent. Yet it gets stuck on the launch pad to greatness."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 3.5/4 "Evocative, riveting, and ultimately contemporary in a roundabout way, Moon is a superb mood piece, sublimely cradled by Jones, filtered through tireless work from star Sam Rockwell."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf "A sad but clever science-fiction exercise about a man working alone on the Moon, with nothing but a talking computer and tape-recorded calls back to Earth to keep him sane."   Film Journal International   Chris Barsanti 3/5 "By film's end, it feels like you've been talking to the same robot as always."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 7/10 "No Starchild. No ultimate trip. No jive-talking robots. Just good old-fashioned story-telling."   DVDTown.com   Christopher Long A- ""Moon" is the best sci-fi movie to come along in a generation or two."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 8/10 "In brief, stark moments, Duncan Jones' movie makes plain how awful it is to be so solitary, how utterly impossible it is to consider this existence a "living.""   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3.5/4 "...one of the most entertaining and flat-out engrossing sci-fi efforts to hit theaters since Steven Soderbergh's woefully underrated 2002 Solaris remake."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "It never quite passes the test as entertainment."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Esoteric and a little frightening, a serious-minded sci-fi rumination for viewers who strive for more out of their genre pieces than pyrotechnics and jive-talking scraps of metal."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B "Should be enthusiastically greeted by serious sci-fi devotees, because it's a smart story that doesn't spell everything out but isn't maddeningly ambiguous, either."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider A- "Like a lot of great scifi, it tells a small, self-contained story while hinting at something far larger and more troubling... It's one of the best movies of the year."   AMCtv.com   Eugene Novikov C+ "An intellectual sci-fi tale that unabashedly takes its inspiration from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Unfortunately, it resembles the Kubrick masterpiece less than an episode of The Outer Limits."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A compelling low-budget sci-fi drama about a lonely astronaut on the moon who faces one conundrum after another as he tries to cope with the changes in his life and destiny."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat "A glum, existential, psycho-philosophical mystery rooted in the tropes of retro sci-fi [is also] an exploration of space madness, the modern married man and corporate ethics."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 3.5/4 "Moon is closer to what die-hards expect when they hear the term 'sci-fi,' and its existence reminds us that serious movies within this genre are not dead -- they're just hiding."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "an intriguing existential space oddity"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Moon is a timely reminder of what readers of analog already know: that science fiction can be (gasp!) intelligent and thoughtful . . ."   fantastiqueZINE   James O'Ehley 4/5 ""In an age when most big-budget science fiction films are made by people with no respect for science or fiction, Moon is a welcome pleasure."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 48/100 "Jones is a methodical filmmaker, and he conveys his plot without mucking it up too terribly, but he's also dull."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 4/5 "click to read the full review on Movies for the Masses"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4.5/5 "It's basically non-violent, yet at moments I felt a deep %u2013 not horror, exactly, more like dismayed awe %u2013 at what we are discovering with Sam. My companions and I left the theatre feeling very satisfied, and I hope you will as well. Moon feels"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery C+ "...either an over-extended or under developed treatment of a good idea. There's not enough there there to make "Moon" an exceptional genre piece."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/4 "An assured, mesmerizing tale of intergalactic loneliness, self-inquiry, and man's innate, enduring hunger for life."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 5/5 "One of the best films of its type to come around in a long while."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Moon really gets under the skin as it probes the nature of humanity while keeping us on the edge of our seats."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie (nee David Jones), makes his feature debut with a calling card that shows his potential as a filmmaker."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 9/10 "The cool and unvarnished heir apparent to the throne of low budget indie sci-fi thrillers."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 8/10 "Moon has heart, brains and a sense of humor, not to mention some nifty model-based special effects ... and a blockbuster performance by Sam Rockwell..."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh 4.5/5 "One of the most compelling sci-fi films of the past 20 years."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg "Essentially a one-man, two character piece, "Moon" could be an old "Twilight Zone" episode nurtured into a feature."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "Comparisons to "2001" or even Ridley Scott's "Alien" aren't far-fetched."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "This excellent little science fiction film is a welcome throwback to an earlier era, when filmmakers used the canvas afforded by outer space and/or the future to explore ideas about the human condition."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski A- "Sam's predicament touches on issues from the deconstruction of human nature and the commodification of human life to existential loneliness, alienation and the dehumanizing effects of corporate ruthlessness."   Christianity Today   Steven D. Greydanus 8/10 "Compellingly haunting human tale of survival that just happens to be set in outer space."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 9/10 "An exquisite gem of a science-fiction picture... pitched squarely at the patient, intelligent adults in the audience who want to have a good think."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 4/5 "Moon both takes off and hits home."   Orlando Weekly   William Goss  (1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 87% Fresh Page   1