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In an exciting story about a dangerous scientific imagination that carries many powerful attitudes about the story of a high school student named Alex Laine, an extraordinary girl. The story begins when Alex faces encounters with mysterious lights on her tiny, exotic city. These miraculous abilities may evolve into a childhood friend, Sean Tyrell. But perhaps the authorities will follow them in adventures that seem more exciting and fun to understand Alex's case and its strange transformation.
6 December 1996, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 July 1973, Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
3 July 1982, Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
17 January 1974, Miami, Florida, USA
4 April 1984, Seattle, Washington, USA
22 January 1998, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
10 September 1957, Geneva, Switzerland
1 October 1957, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
11 June 1970, Montréal, Québec, Canada
28 August 1974, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
31 December 1951, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8 April 1951, Canada
November 28, 2018
Whether you know it or not, kids, you've now got your own generation's Close Encounters of The Third Kind.
March 19, 2018
Stone's movie is one of the most frustrating kinds to run into while covering a festival comprised of upcoming filmmakers, the calling card project.
March 12, 2018
"First Light" doesn't invent anything new, per se, but somehow, in splicing elements from other movies, it fails to achieve the emotional core of its own formula.
October 17, 2018
The actors, a pronounced sense of setting, and Stone's impressive style results in a film that's more memorable than most cynically tossed off young-adult cash grabs.
March 12, 2018
Lacking the flash of big-budget blockbusters or the originality of a uniquely imagined world instead leaves First Light trying to make the best of overly familiar sci-fi themes.
April 18, 2018
There are superpowers and moments of awe -- but the focus on Sean's character and his acceptance of change keeps everything here admirably down to earth.
April 17, 2018
A beautiful example of small scale filmmaking which, by working well within its limits, manages to achieve much more than one might expect.
October 05, 2018
The actors are fine, though the drab screenplay does them no favours.
October 17, 2018
Stone has crafted an intelligent, low key sci-fi thriller, that explores big subjects despite running out of steam toward the finish.
March 19, 2018
First Light nimbly condenses similar, more complicated stories for a greater storytelling accomplishment.
September 27, 2018
Pellerin and Scott are such deeply compelling performers that you are likely to forgive the familiarity of the lovers-on-the-run, first-contact narratives.
February 08, 2019
At First Light isn't a lousy sci-fi picture; its worst offence is taking up time better spent watching movies that leave lasting impressions.
