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Stowaway

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Germany, United States · 2021
Rated G · 1h 57m
Director Joe Penna
Starring Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson
Genre Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

A three-person mission to Mars is interrupted when the crew discovers a stowaway in their midst, inadvertently jeopardizing the lives of everyone on board. As resources grow scarce, the crew faces an impossible choice: exile the unplanned passenger, or let him live and continue with the doomed mission.

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75

Observer by

Empathy and compassion aren’t vulnerabilities in this narrative. They’re resources, with which you can defy the cold cosmos — though not without cost.

60

The Guardian by Benjamin Lee

The focus on the job at hand works until it doesn’t as with just the slightest of characterisation, we’re invested in the problem rather than those solving it and the grip of the first two acts loosens as the finale beckons.

40

Arizona Republic by Bill Goodykoontz

It’s a matter of pacing and choices, what Penna chooses to focus on and what he ignores. He’s got all the elements of a good movie right in front of him. He just never puts all the pieces together.

75

San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Strauss

If you can buy the film’s unlikely core premise, you’ll be rewarded with persuasive speculative fiction in all its other aspects. Penna and company make it easy for audiences to do that, while putting four people whom they’ll come to really care about through all kinds of hell.

70

Los Angeles Times by Jessica Kiang

For the most part, aside from a slightly slack start, and its stirring but simplistic ending, that kind of well-researched procedural detail is what makes Penna’s film such an engrossing and surprisingly touching addition to a genre already bursting with splashier, more extravagant and more overtly sentimental titles.

40

The New York Times by Lena Wilson

For all the empathy it expects of its viewers — every character cries onscreen at least once — the film is troublingly removed from human reality.

75

The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

The film is strongest when simply exploring the terrible notion of triage among the healthy, with everyone involved fully aware of which individual will be deemed the most expendable.

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