The film follows a high school senior, Alex Lainey, who has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town. She soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities and turns to her childhood friend Sean Terrel. The authorities target them and a chase ensues as officials try to discover the truth behind Alex's transformation.... (Full plot summary below)
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The film follows a high school senior, Alex Lainey, who has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town. She soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities and turns to her childhood friend Sean Terrel. The authorities target them and a chase ensues as officials try to discover the truth behind Alex's transformation.
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| SciFiNowAnton BitelThere are superpowers and moments of awe -- but the focus on Sean's character and his acceptance of change keeps everything here admirably down to earth. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustStone doesn’t explicitly ask the straightforward, big-picture questions you’ll find in a film like “Arrival.” But his attention to detail and character, and his ability to render those people in recognizable settings, is engrossing. |
| Globe and MailAndrew ParkerThe rare example of an understated, effectively told young-adult yarn that places emphasis on grounded characters, nuanced performances and stunning visuals over convolution and clichés, Canadian filmmaker Jason Stone’s At First Light boasts unpretentious but exciting surface-level charms. |
| Screen-SpaceSimon FosterWhether you know it or not, kids, you've now got your own generation's Close Encounters of The Third Kind. |
| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeA beautiful example of small scale filmmaking which, by working well within its limits, manages to achieve much more than one might expect. |
| SlashfilmMatt DonatoFirst Light nimbly condenses similar, more complicated stories for a greater storytelling accomplishment. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeApart from the uncommon notion that these mysterious visitors may actually mean us well, the film seems a little too comfortable with clichés, right down to the men in black who show up mid-movie to ruin everybody’s fun. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweLacking the flash of big-budget blockbusters or the originality of a uniquely imagined world, First Light is left trying to make the best of overly familiar sci-fi themes. |
| Film ThreatJoshua SpeiserTry as I might, I just wasn’t all that invested in the fate of Alex and Sean or their own private close encounter with the third kind. Which is a shame as the filmmaker shows a keen flair for creating both an interesting visual and aural palette. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenStone's movie is one of the most frustrating kinds to run into while covering a festival comprised of upcoming filmmakers, the calling card project. |
