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Movie Overview
Cast
• Sam Rockwell
Director
• Duncan Jones
MPAA Rating
R - for language.
Moon (2009)

REVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh
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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
OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh
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