Alex Garland's film rarely reminds its audience that the main characters are mostly women. By Josh Spiegel [This story contains spoilers for Annihilation.] “All women,” notes Lena, the lead character ...

This time, the danger isn’t the seductive appeal of man-made artificial intelligence but something much more amorphous. It’s a mysterious outside threat that seems to upend everything we understand ...

If you like weird sci-fi and Stanley Kubrick, it appears you'll like Alex Garland's new movie. By Graeme McMillan Alex Garland’s Annihilation has been met with some skepticism pre-release, thanks to ...

One of my favorite movie scenes of the 2010s is the dance floor sequence in "Ex Machina," with Oscar Isaac and Sonoya Mizuno doing a bizarre, "Saturday Night Fever"-tinged routine while bathed in ...

The most effective journeys go inward as they go outward. “Annihilation” is a potent and suspenseful trek into heady sci-fi, starring Natalie Portman as a resilient soldier-scientist bravely ...

Annihilation uses a similar pacing and visual style, showing one creature at a time before the disturbing final act. Unlike many dusty and sepia post-apocalyptic movies, Annihilation uses a rainbow ...