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Knowing
Rated PG-13
for disaster sequences,
disturbing images and brief
strong language.
122
minutes
Among the best science fiction films I've seen -- frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome. Nicolas Cage plays an MIT astrophysicist whose son brings home a sheet of paper after a 50-year-old time capsule is opened at his grade school. The sheet is covered with numbers, which the scientist, despite all his training, becomes convinced mean something. Pluck this movie, and it vibrates.
It's wonderful to see a movie review on a Nic flick that isn't written by some jaded newspaper/magazine/website critic with an agenda, isn't it?
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