It was like an LSD trip into the unknown.

After I saw this in the theater, it was such an experience I had to go see it again. it isn't perfect, but it is definitely the kind of sci-fi experience that you only get once in a decade. It's a beautiful and intense mix of Alien and Arrival. I know I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

Liking Ex Machina is no guarantee of liking Annihilation or vice versa. In terms of tone, Annihilation is a close cousin to Arrival. There’s the same dark atmosphere and bleak sense of discovery.

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Portman is eminently watchable as Lena, who slowly realizes that she’s in way over her head. And “Ex Machina” star Isaac virtually redefines creepiness.

Calvin Wilson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Yet the most striking, shaking moment in Annihilation has nothing to do with Area X or the perverted flora and fauna within it. Rather, it's when the film's spare score is interrupted by the folksy strains of Crosby, Stills Nash's Helplessly Hoping.

Barry Hertz

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)