District 9 (2009) NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

Ittsa parable! A little long, but not bad if you don't mind a vomit, exploding bodies, and random body parts...


Sharlto Copley in TriStar Pictures' sci-fi thriller District 9., a 2009 film directed by Neill Blomkamp.
August 14, 2009
A Harsh Hello for Visitors From Space
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: August 14, 2009

For decades — at least since Orson Welles scared the daylights out of radio listeners with “War of the Worlds” back in 1938 — the public has embraced the terrifying prospect of alien invasion. But what if, notwithstanding the occasional humanist fable like “E.T.,” all those movies and television programs have been inculcating a potentially toxic form of interplanetary prejudice? More