I really enjoyed this film, but I cannot imagine the average moviegoer would care too much for it. If you enjoy arthouse films, then you should probably give this a shot- it has some wonderfully meditative themes, some great performances, and a completely original story. But if you only go to the movies to see the latest Marvel flick, I can almost guarantee you'll think this movie weird and probably a little messed up.

I will never understand that camp of filmmakers who make their movies so off putting it's like they don't even want anyone to watch them. Then why make them?

"High Life" feels like a bunch of randomly connected scenes populated by actors performing by themselves that were then edited together later to make it look like they were all in the same movie. These people aren't characters, or at least not characters of any depth that we learn anything about or care anything for. The film is maddeningly obtuse, needlessly so. It's one thing to make an audience do some work in putting the pieces of a film together, but another thing entirely to make that task impossible because you don't give them enough information to do so. I was physically uncomfortable watching this movie, in that fidgety, squirmy way I'm uncomfortable when a movie is so tedious and boring that I'm struggling to pay attention.

And this movie has to have one of the most ridiculous masturbation scenes ever put on screen. I usually adore Juliette Binoche, but oh my goodness was she out of her depth with this one.

Grade: D

This takes place in outer space. This starts with Monte (Robert Pattinson) and a baby girl seemingly the only survivors on a spaceship. The crew turns out to be prisoners on a suicide mission to investigate a nearby black hole. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) is the doctor.

This is trying to be a character study more than a sci-fi adventure. Nevertheless, I am struck by the illogical premise. They don't do anything that couldn't be done better with probes and machines. Any reasonable mission would be an unmanned mission. No matter what crazy happening occurs in the story. The unreasonableness of the story stays in the back of my mind. And there is a lot of crazy. The craziest being the box. This movie is definitely going for the home runs. I appreciate the home run swings but it's mostly a miss for me.