New York Times reviews the South African film DISTRICT 9

Terrific
Saw this at a preview screening this week and it's just great. If possible, don't read anything on it at all, though, I'm assuming my warning will be too late at this point. Just go in blind and you won't regret it!
— Amanda, Silverlake, Los Angeles

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clipped from movies.nytimes.com For decades — at least since Orson Welles scared the daylights out of radio listeners with “War of the Worlds” back in 1938 — the public has embraced the terrifying prospect of alien invasion. But what if, notwithstanding the occasional humanist fable like “E.T.,” all those movies and television programs have been inculcating a potentially toxic form of interplanetary prejudice? “District 9,” a smart, swift new film from the South African director Neill Blomkamp (who now lives in Canada and who wrote the screenplay with Terri Tatchell), raises such a possibility in part by inverting an axiomatic question of the U.F.O. genre. In place of the usual mystery — what are they going to do to us? — this movie poses a different kind of hypothetical puzzle. What would we do to them? The answer, derived from intimate knowledge of how we have treated one another for centuries, is not pretty.