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The Fourth Kind

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United States, United Kingdom, Bulgaria · 2009
1h 38m
Director Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson
Genre Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when she finds evidence of alien abductions.

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Chicago Reader by

Osunsanmi's big formal innovation tunrs out to be the split-screen pairing of patently bogus "archival" black-and-white video that shows alleged abductees undergoing hypnosis and color "reenactments" of same. Ultimately it's up to you, the viewer, to decide which is more boring.

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Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

This is a strange movie (it feels like a lost episode of the old Leonard Nimoy chestnut In Search of …) about strange people doing strange things.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The Fourth Kind is a pseudo-documentary like "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blair Witch Project." But unlike those two, which just forge ahead with their home video cameras, this one encumbers its flow with ceaseless reminders that it is a dramatization of real events.

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The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Terminally awkward in the way it meshes fake real footage with faker fake footage. It isn’t required to be convincing as fact, but it doesn’t convince as fiction, either.

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