Eye-popping and mind-bending, ‘Annihilation’ is a love-it-or-hate-it trip into the unknown

When the end credits started rolling on Alex Garland’s brain-twisting “Annihilation,” the first thought that popped into my head was: If Stanley Kubrick tried to make “2001: A Space Odyssey” today, would a risk-averse, marketing-dependent studio have backed him?It’s not an idle question, because Garland’s science-fiction horror thriller has much of the same visual flourishes, intellectual weight and soaring ambitions as Kubrick’s landmark space epi