Critic Reviews
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker
You don't feel bamboozled, fooled, or patronized by District 9, as you did by most of the summer blockbusters. You feel winded, shaken, and shamed.
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David Edelstein, New York Magazine
To call this the best shrimp-from-outer-space South African apartheid allegory ever made does not begin to do it justice. But it's a start.
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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
This is a great movie.
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Ben Lyons, At the Movies
What an achievement in filmmaking.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
The backstory beats the hell out of the present-tense plot, a routine affair in which a well-meaning doofus working for the Man is infected with a virus, starts turning into an alien himself, and falls in with the oppressed creatures.
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Cast
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Sharlto Copleyas Wikus van der Merwe -
Jason Copeas Christopher Johnson -
David Jamesas Koobus Venter
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Vanessa Haywoodas Tania Van de Merwe -
Mandla Gadukaas Fundiswa Mhlanga -
Kenneth Nkosias Thomas
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