The philosophical “Oblivion ... movie, which would normally be 1,600 visual effects shots, had half the amount. And then the job of [VFX] was to place those elements in these landscapes ...

the big-budget “Oblivion” fails at the kind of twisty tug-of-war stuff a small movie like “Moon” did so memorably. Kosinski (“Tron: Legacy”) gets the landscape right, but overloads the ...

Critics may not be sold on Tom Cruise's latest Hollywood blockbuster "Oblivion" but it's pretty ... to Iceland to capture some of the movie's breathtaking landscapes to make a desolate Earth ...

Movies that get better as they go along are rare. "Oblivion" is one of them ... the meaninglessness of existence against a stark landscape of pure emptiness. But this is a Tom Cruise movie ...

yet you're doing neither.) Many of those weaknesses fall away when viewing the movie as a whole, however — and it all comes down to Oblivion's longing heart. It's a dichotomy echoed by M83's ...

Instead of developing characters, Kosinski (“Tron: Legacy”) pours most of his imagination into the annihilated landscapes ... by “Oblivion” aren’t especially deep, but the movie does ...

The dystopian thriller “Oblivion” is a breathtaking collage ... workaday grubbiness and immense landscapes so stunningly barren that they elicit tangible unease. Director Joseph Kosinski ...

s Joseph Kosinski, Oblivion is one of those easy-on-the-eyes post-apocalyptic sci-fi movies that lives or dies ... ball-like patrol drones that scan the landscape for rebel alien ...

Movies that get better as they go along are rare. “Oblivion” is one of them ... the meaninglessness of existence against a stark landscape of pure emptiness. But this is a Tom Cruise movie ...