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Landscape with Invisible Hand

2023

Cory Finley

Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Josh Hamilton ...

5.1

275

Sci-Fi. Drama. Comedy Adam is a teenage artist coming of age in the aftermath of an alien takeover. The Vuvv, a species of hyper-intelligent extraterrestrials, brought wondrous technology to earth, but only the wealthiest can afford it. The rest of humanity, their livelihoods now obsolete, have to scrape together money in the tourism industry. In the case of Adam and his budding love interest Chloe, that means livestreaming their courtship for the amusement ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times	"A slyly subversive sci-fi satire that packs a sensory kick"	POS
United States	Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"Finley deserves credit for adding extra wrinkles to Anderson's story, but 'Landscape with Invisible Hand' doesn't cut deep enough to leave a mark (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Baffling sci-fi satire misses its mark (...) Cory Finley makes an ambitious misstep with a jumbled comedy about controlling aliens (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Valerie Complex Deadline	"The innovative, poignant film explores how humanity might handle an Earth-altering alien occupation and the resulting clash between class and commerce"	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly Variety	"[It] loses track of the filmmaker's unique voice, but proves his knack for big-budget visuals and storytelling"	NEU
United States	Jason Bailey The Playlist	"It is, at best, an ambitious failure. Finley’s first films were notable for their prickly, tart dialogue and a firm sense of characterization (...) Here, he just seems lost"	NEG
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"[It] is an odd, but effective sci-fi story"	POS
United States	Trace Thurman Bloody Disgusting	"Performances are strong and aid a so-so screenplay, making it difficult not to be captivated by this strangely engrossing new status quo (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jourdain Searles The Hollywood Reporter	"Comedy that lacks bite"	NEG
Canada	Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"Finley's Alien drama Iis unique (...) The sci-fi dramedy boasts great performances from Asante Blackk and Tiffany Haddish. While it isn’t the strongest film, it is bold and fascinating (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Adam Graham Detroit News	"An up-and-down satire, both deeply weird and totally original, with a dry sense of humor and takeaways that are funny, messy and unsettling, sometimes all at once"	NEU
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Lackluster film adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s young adult novel about voyeuristic extraterrestrials is as bizarre as the book, but somehow fails to achieve liftoff (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"'Landscape With Invisible Hand' never seems scattershot because Finley keeps the characters grounded amid the insanity (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Erik Adams IGN	"The visual ingenuity Cory Finley demonstrated [before] is on display here, but the sci-fi satire lacks [the actors] to ground its lofty aims and urgent message"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Repetitive story doesn’t live up to the film’s intriguingly bleak vision of occupied Earth (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle	"There is much to like (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Chase Hutchinson Collider	"While his [Finley] latest isn't as refreshing as his past films in how it does so... it has enough thematic tissue to hold together until an appropriately evocative end (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Claire Shaffer The New York Times	"The film's tonal inconsistencies make the satire wobble"	NEG
United States	Kristy Puchko Mashable	"'Landscape With Invisible Hand' elegantly tells a complicated sci-fi story"	POS
United States	Dylan Roth The New York Observer	"A cutting satire about economic imperialism, the commodification of culture, and the degrees to which human beings are forced to debase themselves in order to survive (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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