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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1   5/5 "Sunshine is canny enough to avoid being reducible to the sum of its parts, and finds a perfect balance between claustrophobic thrills and eye-goggling awe."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel 4.5/5 "(W)hat Boyle and Garland accomplish here is nothing short of a miracle.They manage to allude to previous motion pictures and yet make the riffs and references seem wholly their own."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B+ "It's a baffling bouillabaisse of moods and fears, but it's a persuasive creation, most confident when it isn't being pressed for answers."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf B- "In a bold attempt to create a fresh update on the ever-flagging sci-fi movie genre, director Danny Boyle achieves a visually stunning cinematic poem that is as bewitching as it is infuriating for its dependence on genre cliches."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Imagining the universe through one man's eyes, the movie uses Murphy's brilliant blue eyes and seductive androgyny to set a starting point, both luminous and uncanny. From here, Sunshine suggests vision is ever mutable."   Philadelphia City Paper   Cynthia Fuchs 3.5/4 "...a mesmerizing and thoroughly captivating piece of work."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "A moody, classy, skin-deep sci-fi piece—"Sunshine" gets enough right to please genre buffs."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B+ ""Sunshine" is 90% a great film, a believable and intriguing meditation on life, the human spirit and how far some people are willing to go for the betterment of all mankind."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens B+ "More compelling and engrossing than any sci-fi film of the last few years."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2.5/4 "While its first two acts earn their advancement through the course of time, its final 25 minutes set it back to prehistoric times and I just can't throw it a bone."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress A "A movie that Carl Sagan would have liked."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3.5/4 "An underrated and utterly excellent installment from Boyle who continues topping himself..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. C- "A sci-fi fiasco that wants to be the new 2001 but instead manages to be as silly as Armageddon and as solemnly pretentious as Solaris."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek B "Like the films it grandly and unabashedly pays homage to, Sunshine is serious science fiction for those who prefer to think of space's real possibilities rather than escape into fantasy."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks A- "Sunshine's about an international, multicultural gang of humans collectively mustering the gumption, courage and sacrifice to overcome an environmental catastrophe...[i]n short, it's a global warming allegory..."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "Sunshine has a more ethereal look than the average science fiction movie but, considering the subject matter, it works."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "If you were expecting Danny Boyle to do for sci-fi what he did for the zombie flick with 28 Days Later, then you'd be disappointed . . ."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 1.5/4 "an odyssey of stupidity with one bad decision piling on another."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "It retains a power it rightfully earned, not faltering enough to fully squander it."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 2/4 "Despite all that talent on display, Sunshine is a philosophical blank slate."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 6/10 "A decent science-fiction movie which despite its solid overall production would surely have been a lot better had the momentum and ethereal quality of its first two acts been smoothly transitioned into the finale."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/4 "With an intriguing premise, stellar visuals and an ending that spirals out of control, genre-jumper Danny Boyle's sci-fi effort is familiar without being dull."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 5/5 "This is Sci-fi at its proudest; an incredible achievement that reminds us why Danny Boyle is the best British director working today."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 3.5/4 "Goes from 2001-style contemplative science-fiction to more action-driven sci-fi as perfected by James Cameron to, for better or worse, horror."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest 3/4 "The whole of Sunshine does not live up to the enthralling, provocative final act, but it is science-fiction that cares about ideas over special effects."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik B+ "This is a meticulously constructed story that presents its characters with a series of exponentially more complex moral and practical dilemmas as gripping as the perilous situations that threaten the mission."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow "A gorgeously crafted intergalactic saga sorely lacking in originality or profundity."   Cinematical   Nick Schager 4/5 "However, the rest of the film is so strong and so sure that I still feel somewhat comfortable in recommending it as a whole despite my reservations about the conclusion."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "The narrative is, like all of Garland's work, a series of contrived plot points leading to an insane conclusion."   Film Threat   Rich Cline B "Call it sci-fi yoga and enjoy it as an appetizer to Solaris."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B+ "Though it takes its principal cues from an earlier tradition, it panders to no one in terms of its own vision."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "Sunshine will appeal to the many science fiction fans out there and offers a believably wrought tale steeped in science fact."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/5 "Boyle and company start out with a smoothly claustrophobic space adventure, take a dark right turn into disaster territory, and end up squarely in a horror story. I enjoyed the trip."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg A- "Boyle and his cast set the controls to the heart of the sun and drive the interstellar pilgrimage beyond the dubious science and rickety story line with magnificent imagery and a gravity that pulls you in."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "The picture would be nothing, an incomplete Venn diagram, without Murphy."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek B- "Boyle gives us sci-fi razzle-dazzle and some undeniably powerful images, but as effective as it is for an hour or so, Sunshine ultimately settles for puzzling more than mysterious."   Christianity Today   Steven D. Greydanus 8/10 "Stunning, gripping and adventurous, giving new meaning to The Big Bang."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 9/10 "One of the most inventive and fascinating science-fiction films in decades."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2.5/4 "Sunshine is also an atypically humorless entry from Boyle, who's never made a film this oddly devoid of personality."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 3/4 "As long as the picture maintains a philosophical distance, there is about it a magisterial, ravishing loveliness."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw Read review   Nitrate Online   Dan Lybarger Read review   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Read review   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick Read review   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1