82/100

As much as I prefer to avoid reducing films to "x + y" influence equations, this really is almost precisely "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" crossed with Primer, and very nearly as heady and arresting as that sounds. Unlike Carruth, Byrkit (who's worked extensively with Gore Verbinski—he has a story credit on Rango, for example) is a bit too eager to explain himself, even tossing in an overly convenient book that lays out Schrödinger's Cat for viewers unfamiliar with quantum decoherence; a more confident filmmaker would have produced a knowing smile in those with some knowledge of physics and let everybody else simply accept the split as magic. His scenario is arguably even more insanely complicated, though…

I, Me, Myself. We, Us, Ourselves.

What could possibly be the most startling thing you could ever witness in real life that would make your heart pound, head spin, doubt your mind if its reality or schizophrenic hallucination and make you question your own sanity? A Brontosaurus, a Godzilla, an Alien, a Predator, one look at the mutated, cross species progeny from Eraserhead, a glance at the abominable, heart attack inducing face from Mulholland Drive, witnessing Hannibal Lecter eat a man's brain right out of his head while he is still alive and also feed some to him, reading Jack Torrance's months of work, the enigmatically chilling Polish woman from Inland Empire, Buffalo Bill, Ichi, the killer; which one of…

Performances: 7.2/10
Story: 8.9/10
Production: 7.1/10
Overall: 7.73/10

Heads up everyone, Coherence is a beautifully crafted, extremely intelligent surprise. Pending the release of Interstellar this could be the best Sci-Fi of 2014.

It's the feature-length debut for director James Ward Byrkit and if nothing else it shows that he is someone to keep your eye on for a long time. The budget was very obviously minuscule but he makes the most of his limitations. The shaky shots, intimate close-ups, and masterful use of the darkness make this an intense thriller and not just another thinking mans Sci-Fi. Think Primer - only with more humanity. The character moments are actually some of the best. Impressive, especially with a cast filled with…

This was a somewhat trippy science fiction/horror/psychological thriller I rather enjoyed. It doesn’t have much in the way of action scenes, there are no chase scenes, and not much special effects, but it is a well-paced intellectual thriller carried by the strength of the good acting and dialogue.

The premise is very simple, a dinner party of eight people, a mixture of couples married or dating, all of them knowing each other in some way, are enjoying time together. There have been a few odd things – the main character’s phone went dead and then cracked while she held it, there is a comet passing by overhead, another character’s scientist brother told him to call if anything unusual happened –…