Love and Monsters

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Directed by Michael Matthews
Produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen
Written by Brian Duffield and Matthew Robinson

With: Dylan O'Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing, and Ariana Greenblatt

Cinematography: Lachlan Milne
Editing: Nancy Richardson and Debbie Berman
Music: Marco Beltrami and Marcus Trumpp

Runtime: 109 min
Release Date: 16 October 2020
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color

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One of those low-stakes, tongue-in-cheek sci-fi monster movies that use CGI to create credible-looking threats but undercut them with cheeky humor (I'd say this is an established sub-genre now). South African director Michael Matthews delivers an above-average work of disposable fun about a lovable loser living in a post-apocalyptic Earth who ventures across hostile terrain with a dog, and some sage advice from Michael Rooker, to find the girl he left behind.

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