Alice Braga Archives

I Am Legend (2007)

Rating: ★★

Jan 19, 2008Last Man on Earth vs Mutants

The third film version of Richard Matheson’s book is only a remake of the previous version The Omega Man. Crucially, this throws out the essence of the book for a far less interesting piece about Will Smith fighting mutants in the ruins

Director: Francis Lawrence

Actors: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 January 200810 April 2026 by Roog

Blindness (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 17, 2010Plague of Blindness

A hugely underrated film that depicts the brutal collapse of society that occurs when the entire world is affected by a plague that causes blindness. Directed in strong and powerful images

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 April 201025 August 2020 by Roog

Predators (2010)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 17, 2010Action/Humans Hunted by Alien Sportsmen

Despite being hamstrung with Adrien Brody in Action Hero mode, this is a hard-edged film that goes some way to rescue the Predator franchise from its novelty crossovers with Alien(s)

Director: Nimrod Antal

Actors: Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 July 201012 February 2025 by Roog

Repo Men (2010)

Rating: ★★

Mar 21, 2010Future Organ Repossession

SF film set in a future where agents are sent to repossess artificial organs when the owner's fall behind on payments. Sort of Sicko by way of Logan's Run but lacking the necessary sense of black humour to work

Director: Miguel Sapochnik

Actors: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 March 201022 November 2025 by Roog

The Rite (2011)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 29, 2011Demonic Possession and Exorcism/"True Story"

Full-blooded possession and exorcism that takes its Catholic cant seriously and emerges as dramatically gripping, with Anthony Hopkins delivering a tour-de-force performance. Supposedly based on a true story.

Director: Mikael Håfström

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Alice Braga, Colin O'Donoghue, Rutger Hauer, …

Category: Horror

29 January 201127 October 2025 by Roog

Elysium (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 9, 2013Future Class Divide

The second film from Neill Blomkamp. As in District 9, he starts out making a savage and biting social critique about social privilege and financial elites only to let the film descend into action moves in the third act

Director: Neill Blomkamp

Actors: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 August 201331 January 2026 by Roog

The New Mutants (2020)

Rating: ★★

Nov 21, 2020Comic-Book Superheroes

What will be the very last of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men films, this is more like a superheroic version of The Breakfast Club than any of the other X-Men films

Director: Josh Boone

Actors: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 November 202010 October 2024 by Roog

Soul (2020)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 9, 2021Pixar Animation/Man Tries to Return from the Afterlife

Pixar film with a head-scratchingly odd plot but also one of the better efforts of the divided post-2010 period that goes a long way towards recapturing the things they did so well in their heyday

Director: Pete Docter

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, …

Category: Fantasy

9 January 202130 August 2024 by Roog

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 14, 2021Team-Up of DC Comics Super-Villains

James Gunn takes over the Suicide Squad franchise and welcomely rescues it from the dud first screen outing

Director: James Gunn

Actors: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, Joel Kinnaman, John Cena, …

Category: Fantasy

14 August 20216 September 2025 by Roog

Hypnotic (2023)

Rating: ★★

Jun 10, 2023Psychic Powers/Reality Bender

Robert Rodriguez makes a film with Ben Affleck as a detective dealing with a man who can control others' minds. However, this develops into a mind twister of considerable reality bending proportions

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Actors: Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, William Fichtner, J.D. Pardo, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 June 20231 April 2026 by Roog

A Murder at the End of the World (2023)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 5, 2024Hi-Tech Murder Mystery

Brit Marling is one of the most intelligent creative faces of the 2010s/20s. Here she co-writes, co-directs and stars in a murder mystery set in the tech world

Director: Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij

Actors: Emma Corrin, Brit Marling, Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 January 202413 April 2024 by Roog