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The Host

2013

Andrew Niccol

Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Diane Kruger, William Hurt ...

4.9

12,507

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Romance One soul, the Wanderer, is fused with a dying human named Melanie Stryder, in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth. THE HOST is a riveting story about the survival of love and the human spirit in a time of war. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact. Most of humanity has succumbed.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The Host is born from the mother of all things Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, which is the next best - or worst - thing, depending on your point of view (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"There's something about novelist Stephenie Meyer that induces formerly interesting directors to suddenly make films that are slow, silly and soporific"	NEG
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"Meyer is undeniably canny at using genre to address the age-old struggles of adolescence, but at just over two hours, even 'The Host's' air of guilty pleasure eventually subsides"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'The Host' is top-heavy with profound, sonorous conversations, all tending to sound like farewells. The movie is so consistently pitched at the same note, indeed, that the structure robs it of possibilities for dramatic tension (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Dopey, derivative and dull, "The Host" is a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation"	NEG

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