In Mike Cahill’s Sundance crowd-pleaser, a teenage student kills a professor’s family in a traffic collision on the same night of the discovery of a duplicate planet Earth. Four years later she is released from prison and begins insinuating herself into the life of the unsuspecting widow, all the while Earth II is edging closer to our world. Another Earth eschews apocalyptic clichés and ponders instead on hefty themes like loss and redemption, the sci-fi element being a mere backdrop to what is essentially an existential drama. Compelling food for thought, although the overall tone may be a little too cold to keep viewers hooked throughout those lugubrious 92 minutes.
3/5
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