COHERENCE FILM MOVIE

There’s dancer Em (Emily Foxler), who’s quietly unhappy and in an ostensibly healthy relationship with Kevin (Maury Sterling). The one common thread linking all eight characters is perhaps their normality. As Coherence opens, hints of the comet’s influence can be seen in broken phone screens and disrupted signals. Our protagonists are eight friends who come together for a dinner party on the night of an astronomical anomaly – “Miller’s Comet,” which is passing closer to Earth than ones recorded in the past. It’s hard to talk about Coherence without spoiling its many fascinating twists and turns, but I’ll do my best. It’s easily one of the most thought-provoking and deeply engrossing cinematic experiences of the year – not to mention a highly auspicious debut for writer-director James Ward Byrkit.

COHERENCE FILM MOVIE

Like the better episodes of The Twilight Zone, Christopher Nolan’s Memento and Shane Carruth’s Primer before it, indie sci-fi Coherence is a brilliantly staged and sharply written mindscrew of a movie that left me equal parts giddy, chilled and bewildered.

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