Avatar (2009 film) and Boris Strugatsky, which are set in the 22nd century on a forested world called Pandora with a sentient indigenous species called the Nave. Various reviews have compared "Avatar" to the films "", "Pocahontas" and "The Last Samurai." NPR's "Morning Edition" has compared the film to a montage of tropes, with one commentator stating that "Avatar" was made by "mixing a bunch of film scripts in a blender". Gary Westfahl wrote that "the science fiction story that most closely resembles "Avatar" has to be Ursula Le Guin's novella "The Word for World Is Forest" (1972), another epic about a benevolent
In the Shadow of the Moon (film) on 111 reviews. Furthermore, 4,884 users of IMDb gave the film 8.1/10 points. Roger Ebert called it "spellbinding". "Entertainment Weekly" rated the movie an A. The "Los Angeles Times" called the film a "fresh and compelling film, made with intelligence and emotion" Meanwhile, "The Hollywood Reporter" concluded that "The value of this film, not just to moviegoers today but to future generations, is simply enormous." On 23 June 2008 the Independent Investigations Group (IIG) honoured "In the Shadow of the Moon" for promoting scientific skepticism in media; the award was received by producer Duncan Copp. In the Shadow of the