The Discovery

Name: The Discovery
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance
Released: March 31, 2017
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 54

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Netflix | Release Date: March 31, 2017 | TV-MA

Summary: One year after the existence of the afterlife is scientifically verified, millions around the world have ended their own lives in order to “get there”. A man and woman fall in love while coming to terms with their own tragic pasts and the true nature of the afterlife.

Director: Charlie McDowell

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 102 min

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Richard Roeper

Mar 30, 2017

You need to be strapped in and focused for director and co-writer Charlie McDowell’s ambitious, unnerving, slightly loopy and beautifully ambivalent gem, which only tackles the question: How would people react if there was absolute proof of an afterlife? Read full review

The Film Stage Jordan Raup

Jan 22, 2017

By concurrently threading the needle of both the hereafter and emotional breakthroughs for our characters, it can make the plot schematics feel too tidy in their construction, but the journey in finding how these elements fit together is never less than engrossing. Read full review

Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

Apr 2, 2017

That world is so well-realized that the film is worth seeing, but it’s a mild letdown given the number of philosophical queries that it raises, only to leave ultimately unexplored. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Jan 22, 2017

While the movie overdoes the plot twists and existential musings, The Discovery is a diverting head-trip whose reach far exceeds its grasp. Read full review

Glenn Whipp

Mar 30, 2017

Director Charlie McDowell, who co-wrote the film with Justin Lader, sidesteps the material’s more intriguing ideas, ultimately settling for a conventional story about love, loss and second chances. The disappointment comes not in the lack of answers but in the relative absence of audacity in tackling such a trippy concept. Read full review

David James

Apr 6, 2017

The Discovery has a fantastic premise but lacks the ambition. imagination or intellect to explore it satisfyingly. Instead, we're left with a gloomy, thinly written emotional drama. Read full review

Emily Yoshida

Mar 30, 2017

This is peak TV in a feature-film package, a faux-deep, workmanlike script splashed with some strikingly moody sci-fi imagery tailor-made for a YouTube trailer. It aspires to eerie and constantly ends up at belabored and literal. Read full review

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CoKronakan

Apr 6, 2018

It's a complex movie, with an interesting concept, but sadly too popular these days. There are a lot of movies that visit this afterlife idea, and it get's cliche, even though the movie is great. So the pacing of the movie is just right, and we spend just enough time with the characters toIt's a complex movie, with an interesting concept, but sadly too popular these days. There are a lot of movies that visit this afterlife idea, and it get's cliche, even though the movie is great. So the pacing of the movie is just right, and we spend just enough time with the characters to care for them. Amazing directing style, I loved it, but you have to have some patients with it. Also great job by the actors, great delivery. The twist was the point of the movie that is entertaining and deep, but at the same time it's instantly cliche and somewhat a let down. Overall it's a great movie, but it's a crowded genre these days so it's getting boring even though this was one of the better title of that genre. Good movie.… Expand