Netflix Is Removing the Sci-Fi Classic District 9

District 9 will leave Netflix at the end of March; viewers have only until March 31 to watch the film on the service. Released in 2009, it was the feature-length directorial debut of Neill Blomkamp, a Canadian filmmaker born in South Africa. Peter Jackson came on as a producer and helped the movie break out.

The film grossed more than $200 million worldwide against a reported $30 million budget and earned a Best Picture nomination in the first year the Academy expanded its nomination pool after The Dark Knight controversy. It holds a "Certified Fresh" 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics' consensus reads, "Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction classic." Shot in a stark mockumentary format, District 9 examines racism through an alternate world in which an alien ship arrives seeking refuge.

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