Knowing
27,956
Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Thriller
In 1959, William Dawes Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts, comes up with the idea of burying a time capsule on the school grounds to be opened in 50 years time. Each of the students puts in a drawing of what they believe the future will look like. Young Lucinda Embry’s contribution is a page of numbers. In 2009, John Koestler is an astrophysics professor at MIT who is raising his son Caleb on his own after the death of his ... [+]
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"The draggy, lurching two hours of 'Knowing' will make you long for the end of the world, even as you worry that there will not be time for all your questions to be answered." | ||
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"Hokum is best served straight, not as a New Age cocktail with too many ingredients." | ||
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"[It] is among the best science-fiction films I've seen -- frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" | ||
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"Absorbing and able to be taken seriously most of the way (...) Genre fans always looking for something new and awesome may feel like they’ve seen most of this before" | ||
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"Absurdly jumbled plot. (...) If you're of a mind to believe a dreary and far-fetched thriller about numerology-crazed alien life forms, then you may find the movie mildly diverting. (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)" |
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