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Captive State

2019

Rupert Wyatt

John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Vera Farmiga, Madeline Brewer ...

5.3

3,547

Sci-Fi. Thriller Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents. Ten years ago, they took our planet. Today, we take it back. From the director of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."

In theaters March 2019.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"[It is imperfectly constructed, at times frustratingly so, but it's trying, doggedly, to do something different and given the bland efficiency of so many wide-releasing sci-fi movies, that's hard to fault (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[It has so many ideas] that it doesn't seem to have any clue what to do with them. Visually murky, choppily edited and lacking both narrative clarity and well defined characterizations"	NEG
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"An audacious and suspenseful thriller (...) [It] is liable to make its mark as an esteemed cult favorite"	POS
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"If aliens ever invade, pray that it’s more exciting than this flat thriller (...) Our moment-to-moment understanding of what’s happening is almost always less than that of the characters"	NEG
United States	Bilge Ebiri Rolling Stone	"The conceit of making the aliens largely absent villains does give the film a quietly allegorical quality (...) Yet Wyatt never explores that idea much further (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Mark Dujsik rogerebert.com	"The thinking behind 'Captive State' is admirable. The execution is far from that (...) Thrills of almost any kind, on the other hand, are completely absent (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Jordan Raup The Film Stage	"Wyatt peppers intriguing details throughout but gets too tripped up in a deluge of timely messages that he loses sight of his characters in this jumbled, peculiarly-structured narrative."	NEG
United States	Rosie Knight IGN	"A lo-fi vision of the future which manages to be both heartbreaking and hopeful, 'Captive State' is held together by tight direction and a fantastic lead performance from Ashton Sanders."	POS
United States	Mike Cecchini Den of Geek	"The script (…) is flat, with most characters stuck making mumbled declarations (…) [It] never really elevates its premise or delivers the kind of spectacle that would make it worth seeing on the big screen (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"For those looking for a fast-paced thriller (...) [it] has a lot to offer (...) If characters with satisfying arcs are more your style, well, it’s best to sit this one out (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Carlos Aguilar The Wrap	"This muddled disappointment from Rupert Wyatt wastes a cast that includes John Goodman, Ashton Sanders and Vera Farmiga	NEG

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