Contact (1997)
Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) races to interpret a possible message originating from the Vega star system while others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders and other scientists such as Drumlin, try to take over her work.
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January 17, 2008
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...
October 13, 2007
Magical, captivating entertainment.
October 06, 2009
...one of the best pure science-fiction films since 2001.
June 09, 2007
Begins with a big bang, gradually falls into a lull and finally succumbs to entropy.
July 31, 2010
Uma ficção científica que confere peso semelhante aos dois termos do gênero: se sua narrativa ficcional é intrigante e bem desenvolvida, sua ciência jamais se entrega ao implausível.
June 08, 2007
When Contact finally comes alive, it leaves you frightened and thrilled and emotionally overwrought, as only a child can be. The rest is pandering.
February 16, 2011
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.
August 20, 2009
No wonder the astronomer's philosophy of contact boils down to this: Don't call me, I'll call you.
March 26, 2009
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.
December 22, 2010
Thoughtful adaptation of the Carl Sagan novel.
February 16, 2011
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.
