District 9

From the San Francisco Chronicle, one of the 7 perfect scores of 100 District 9 received in becoming one of the best reviewed movies of the year:

Every now and then, a film comes along that both defies and compels description. “District 9” is one such movie: a science-fiction action vehicle so brilliantly and fully imagined that real life, when it resumes after the credits, arrives with a new sense of dread… this is categorically one of the best releases of the year – a spellbinding genre flick that’s also a corrosive assault on the baroque inhumanity of common human beings.

On my way out to see for myself right now. Open thread here, for reader reactions and for sharing your “new sense of dread.”