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Super 8

2011

J.J. Abrams

Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Elle Fanning, Ryan Lee ...

6.4

71,657

Sci-Fi. Adventure In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town set out to make a zombie movie. While shooting their Super 8 film, Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) witness a catastrophic train crash and, after barely escaping themselves, they soon discover that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town and local Deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler) tries to uncover the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It was like seeing a lost early Spielberg classic (...) 'Super 8' is a wonderful film, nostalgia not for a time but for a style of filmmaking (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader	"Writer-director J.J. Abrams overloads this sci-fi adventure with so many homages to his co-producer Steven Spielberg that it plays like the elder director's greatest hits, minus his characteristic scares and sense of wonder"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A retro monster mash with a child's heart, a prodigy's unstoppable imagination (...) This movie, a true beauty, will put a spell on you (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	Put "The Goonies," "E.T.," "Close Encounters" and "War of the Worlds" in that blender from "Gremlins" -- and transport the mixture back to 1979 in the "Back to the Future" DeLorean -- and you get J.J. Abrams' "Super 8 (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"This melding of two cinematic sensibilities, though effective at moments, is finally not as exciting or involving as it we'd like it to be (...) The problem with "Super 8" is not how much there is to complain about but how little there is to be excited about"
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Loving, playful, and spectacularly well made, Super 8 is easily the best summer movie of the year -- of many years"

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