Natalie Portman tackles various roles, but her role in Annihilation remains her riskiest in a movie that has no comparison.

Unlike Alex Garland’s previous film Ex Machina, everything isn’t wrapped up neatly at the end. Where Ex Machina’s ending (where you could watch another, equally fascinating, three-hours if Garland ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: One of the best films of 2018 has finally made it onto a streaming service, only it’s not the one we all initially expected. Annihilation, Alex Garland’s deeply ...

The filmmaker talks the power of his female cast, his ‘striking’ source material, avoiding franchises, Netflix distribution … and the prospects of a Dredd sequel. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman ...

Great art invites interpretation, not by being needlessly obtuse, but by encouraging the viewers to explore certain ideas and concepts that are presented uniquely. Alex Garland’s sci-fi film, ...

As much as Annihilation is a story and a film, it’s also an experience. Fittingly, that’s the word, director Alex Garland will use to describe the sci-fi world at the center of his movie, the Shimmer.

The alien dome they call "The Shimmer" stretches for several miles, radiating from a lighthouse in the middle of a national park. Its border is pulsating and translucent with shades of purple, like a ...

The three books in 'The Southern Reach Trilogy' by Jeff VanderMeer: 'Annihilation,' 'Authority,' and "Acceptance.' In the book, the characters are introduced without names. But in the film, Natalie ...