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Contact

1997

Robert Zemeckis

Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt ...

6.6

38,491

Sci-Fi. Drama She's known it since she was a young girl, when she would magically connect with distant voices on her father's shortwave radio. She's known it since college, when she chose the search for intelligent extraterrestrial messages as her discipline. She's known it since she bargained for just hours a week of satellite time to sweep the heavens for evidence. And she knows it every time she stares at the countless stars dappling the infinite ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The strength of 'Contact' is in the way it engages in issues that are relevant today, and still only rarely discussed in the movies (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"While the movie doesn’t qualify as an awful waste of space by any means, it has so many creative black holes, you’ll have to weigh the entertainment odds before making this journey."	NEU
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite its lineage and some impressive special effects, 'Contact' is a disappointingly earthbound production, weighed down by the ballast of talking-heads dramaturgy and bloated storytelling."	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"This is the kind of motion picture that restores one's faith in what can be produced when a large budget is used wisely (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"[It] may be too long, too self-important and too "Gump"-like to be completely satisfying. But it contains elements that are so striking they pretty much redeem the film."	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Features heavy-handed exposition, repetitive, maudlin flashbacks, uneven performances and endless sermonising."	NEG

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