Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
1091 Media | Release Date (Streaming): April 10, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeApr 9, 2020
The pic's claims grow wilder by the minute, and its power to persuade is undercut by narration scripted like a YouTube conspiracy film. For this skeptical but totally willing-to-believe viewer, Fifth Kind doesn't move the needle even a smidge. Read full review
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VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 9, 2020
As it goes on, this all becomes a marketing hook for an increasingly flaked-out fantasy. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayApr 9, 2020
This “Close Encounters” is overlong and rambling — more concerned with disconnected anecdotes than making a compelling case or telling an interesting story. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 14, 2020
It’s a flurry of wild claims, dubious “experts,” Ad hominem attacks on doubt-sewers, aka “fascist demagogues” of “the national security (and media) state,” clip after clip of sci-fi movies mixed in with newsreel footage, cherry-picked “proof” via inter-title quotes from thinkers, scientists and others — read by narrator Jeremy Piven — and endorsements. Read full review
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