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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneBoxoffice MagazineRay GreeneWhat I can say is if you're flesh and blood, and have ever suffered a substantial loss, you will be moved by Another Earth. And also renewed.
- 91The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonIt's an ambitious premise and a risky approach, but Cahill and his cast execute it beautifully.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe best science fiction tells stories about people in extraordinary environments or situations that serve to open up the vast, still largely unexplored terrain of the human heart. Mike Cahill's Another Earth is science fiction at its best.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfAnother Earth is a movie you take home and write your own ending to.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversAnother Earth offers imagination and provocation to spare.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangOut there, to say the least, but rescued from risibility by its well-matched lead performances and crazy low-budget ambition.
- 63Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoThe hanging specter of a phantom planet puts a lot of pressure on Another Earth, a resolutely small parable of grief that often feels menaced by its big-idea concept.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceUnable to organically incorporate their Big Ideas into the narrative, the filmmakers lazily lay them on top, leaving the exposition of Another Earth's structuring fantasy to a blanket of background voiceover.
- 25Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt's one of those stultifying aftermath-of-
a-car-crash movies.