The Natalie Portman film by the director of Ex Machina is about as intelligent as sci-fi film-making today can get, writes Caryn James.

In Alex Garland’s Annihilation, The Shimmer appears as a lovely, iridescent wall, a gel-like substance of alien origin enclosing a recently evacuated area. It is enticing, poetic and ominous, like this cerebral sci-fi thriller itself, which takes Natalie Portman and four other scientists inside the area to investigate what the Shimmer holds and why all previous missions have disappeared inside it. 


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