Natalie Portman ventures into 'the shimmer' in Alex Garland's follow-up to Ex Machina. Read the Empire review.

More terrifying than any creature Hollywood could dream up is the unraveling of one’s mind—the steady loss of a consciousness as defined by the memories, motivations, and knowledge built up from decades of experience and reflection. With Annihilation, Alex Garland’s beautiful, frightening follow-up to Ex Machina, he portrays this paralyzing sensation with a sense of

Follow-up to Alex Garland’s ‘Ex Machina’ engages similar themes, to less riveting effect.

Alex Garland follows up 'Ex Machina' with a beautiful, brutal headtrip about nature gone wild in 'Annihilation,' starring Natalie Portman.

Alex Garland's follow-up to Ex Machina is a cerebral, twisting film about our genetic flaws as human beings bathed in a beautiful nightmare.

Alex Garland follows up 'Ex Machina' with a visually stunning, imagination-tickling sci-fi thriller about an extra-terrestrial threat.

The film is visually enchanting but leaves important questions unresolved.

Alex Garland's 'Annihilation' is the ultimate model of show don't tell, a film so singularly cinematic it's hard to describe.

Alex Garland's SF mystery is weird for weirdness' sake.

The streaming service's latest offering suffers from clunky dialogue and a disjointed plot, says Lucy Hunter Johnston 

Director Alex Garland follows his acclaimed Ex Machina with this screen adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's sci-fi adventure.

It starts with a meteor crashing into a lighthouse on an average sunny day, and widens – over what’s whispered to be a few years – into a government secret call