At its worst, The Wandering Earth: The Movie! feels like any number of generic, CGI-bloated American sci-fi blockbusters—and in scenes like these, it's hard not to recognized (and be bored by) similarities to everything from Michael Bay's Armageddon to Roland Emmerich's 2012. But at its best, The Wandering Earth captures a bit of the brain-stretching majesty and humbling intelligence of Cixin Liu's writing. Sometimes The Wandering Earth is annoying and goofy; at others, the film approaches profundity. A few times, these two things happen in the same scene. by Erik Henriksen