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Postcard from Earth review: Amazing visuals can’t lift Aronofsky movie

It’s not Black Swan or The Wrestler. Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard from Earth is visually stunning with ultra high-res canyons and wildlife but as a movie, it is cheesy and simplistic

By Josh Bell

3 November 2023

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Postcard from Earth in the Sphere in Las Vegas

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Postcard from Earth

Darren Aronofsky

Sphere, Las Vegas

When Sphere Entertainment announced that Darren Aronofsky would be directing the first production made exclusively for its massive Sphere venue in Las Vegas, it was a sign that this would be more than just publicity for what amounts to the world’s largest snow globe.

Getting the Oscar-nominated director of Black Swan, The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream to take charge of Postcard from Earth meant that the production would be about…

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