...one of the best pure science-fiction films since 2001.
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10/06/09
Contact (1997)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:35
Rotten:18
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 33 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who... [More]
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Reviews for Contact
No wonder the astronomer's philosophy of contact boils down to this: Don't call me, I'll call you.
08/20/09
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03/26/09
Top CriticWith all the science and technology, Zemeckis and the writers made room for spiritual debates (some of them painfully slight), political commentary, and a strangely tepid and inert romance...
01/17/08
Magical, captivating entertainment.
10/13/07
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06/09/07
Top CriticContact takes forever to lift off.
06/08/07
Top CriticWhen Contact finally comes alive, it leaves you frightened and thrilled and emotionally overwrought, as only a child can be. The rest is pandering.
06/08/07
The result is a film far too cold-blooded for summer audiences.
06/08/07
Features heavy-handed exposition, repetitive, maudlin flashbacks, uneven performances and endless sermonising.
06/24/06
Top CriticFoster's voyage is an astronomical letdown, largely because Zemeckis' ideas of heaven and earth don't extend beyond what can be envisioned as a celluloid event.
11/04/05
It is a good sci-fi yarn.
04/09/05
By hating the two-dimensional villain ... the audience feels they have found 'the bad guy' and aren't challenged to consider the flimsiness in Arroway's or Josse's perspectives.
12/06/04
The story doesn't always do justice to the mind-bending visual opening of Robert Zemeckis' movie, which features Jodie Foster as an annoyingly intense scientist.
06/28/04
Gran, gran película, una de esas que merecería más páginas...
01/12/04
Even the computer generated graphics are a bad fit.
05/14/03
A rare find -- a science-fiction film more interested in ideas than scary critters.
10/15/02
You've got some great moments and an intriguing, haunting last act, but most of the movie isn't very exceptional.
09/10/02
...credit the makers of Contact... with making precisely the kind of movie that we imagine [Carl] Sagan would have wanted made.
08/07/02
The build-up of the film is exceptionally well written, as ``Contact'' gives us two attractive adults who actually discuss issues and concepts instead of trading coy double entendres.
06/23/02
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