Thinking man’s science Fiction from the writer/director of District 9, Elysium shows us utopia in a future where most people are leaving anywhere but–and what a desperate man on the raggedy edge will do when all hope fails. There’s a lot to like here, with both social commentary and action and explosions. The full review is at buzzymag.

An excerpt:
On Earth, Max (Matt Damon) is leaving a life of drudgery, working in a factory owned by the very, very rich John Carlyle (William Fichtner). He’s trying to walk the straight and narrow, but his past as a criminal legend makes things difficult.