the overall effect is extraordinary: a lavish, magnificently unnerving visual feast threaded through with well-earned jump scares and real metaphysical force. It's the kind of film that leaves you dazzled, shellshocked
scary and beautiful... Annihilation looks fabulously verdant as well as threatening, just the right combination for a film that wants to welcome you into its world in order to shake you up
Garland showed potential as a true sci-fi visionary and takes his next step with Annihilation; It's a completely bizarre tale that will leave heads spinning about what exactly just happened but still finds a way to be genuinely satisfying
Garland blends hardcore suspense and intellectual curiosity with the skill of a master; It's a "bracing brainteaser with the courage of its own ambiguity"
by Brian Truitt [USA Today ]
