This movie quietly snuck into the theatres during the ruckus of Oscar season and I missed it. If you go into “Annihilation” thinking you are about to see a movie like last year’s “Arrival,” guess again. You are actually going to see something more akin to “Alien.” “Annihilation” is shot going back and forth in time, dropping us in the middle, and going back to the beginning to see how we got to the current point in time. Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac are great (as always). A lot is unknown while watching this and some questions get answered, a lot do not. The journey is beautiful, scary, tragic and a lot unnerving. Is it an alien movie? Is it about the balance of mother nature? Is it about the end of our world? 

Grade: 75% of the movie (the first 75%) gets an A, the last 25% gets a C+