Contact: Critic Reviews

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Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

63

For an aspiring ultimate trip, Contact has a flimsy dramatic grip.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Washington Post (Top Critic)

Begins with a big bang, gradually falls into a lull and finally succumbs to entropy.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

Contact takes forever to lift off.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

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.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

Zemeckis uses special effects to suggest the climactic events without upstaging them.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Like Jodie Foster's hopeful space voyager in the picture, "Contact" may not travel quite as far as it hopes to go, but the trip is worth taking nonetheless.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Contact, which aims for awe, ends up with piffle.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Sarah Kerr Slate (Top Critic)

When Contact finally comes alive, it leaves you frightened and thrilled and emotionally overwrought, as only a child can be. The rest is pandering.
Full Review » 5 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

100

This is the kind of motion picture that restores one's faith in what can be produced when a large budget is used wisely.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

Something like one of those mysterious asteroids that get the astronomers all worked up: a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

An exhilarating adventure.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Newsweek

When it's good, it's very good. And when it's not, it can be as silly and self-important as a bad '50s sci-fi movie.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Thoughtful adaptation of the Carl Sagan novel.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

100

Uma ficcao cientifica que confere peso semelhante aos dois termos do genero: se sua narrativa ficcional e intrigante e bem desenvolvida, sua ciencia jamais se entrega ao implausivel.
Full Review » 2 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

80

...one of the best pure science-fiction films since 2001.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rob Nelson City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

No wonder the astronomer's philosophy of contact boils down to this: Don't call me, I'll call you.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Sean Axmaker Turner Classic Movies Online

With all the science and technology, Zemeckis and the writers made room for spiritual debates (some of them painfully slight), political commentary, and a strangely tepid and inert romance...
Full Review » 4 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

100

Magical, captivating entertainment.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide

63

The result is a film far too cold-blooded for summer audiences.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

Features heavy-handed exposition, repetitive, maudlin flashbacks, uneven performances and endless sermonising.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly

Foster's voyage is an astronomical letdown, largely because Zemeckis' ideas of heaven and earth don't extend beyond what can be envisioned as a celluloid event.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

75

It is a good sci-fi yarn.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeffrey Overstreet Looking Closer

67

By hating the two-dimensional villain ... the audience feels they have found 'the bad guy' and aren't challenged to consider the flimsiness in Arroway's or Josse's perspectives.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Judith Egerton Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

63

The story doesn't always do justice to the mind-bending visual opening of Robert Zemeckis' movie, which features Jodie Foster as an annoyingly intense scientist.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Alex Ramirez Cinenganos

100

Gran, gran pelicula, una de esas que mereceria mas paginas...
Full Review » 8 years ago