Synopsis
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
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Cast
- Anna KendrickZoe Levenson
- Toni ColletteMarina Barnett
- Daniel Dae KimDavid Kim
- Shamier AndersonMichael Adams
Recommendations
- 80
IGN
Stowaway is shrewd in its decision-making and even better in its execution. - 75
The A.V. Club
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. - 75
Observer
Empathy and compassion aren’t vulnerabilities in this narrative. They’re resources, with which you can defy the cold cosmos — though not without cost. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
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
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. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Whenever the story’s central tension threatens to get interesting and complicated, the filmmakers deflate it in the most obvious of ways. - 60
The Guardian
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
The New York Times
For all the empathy it expects of its viewers — every character cries onscreen at least once — the film is troublingly removed from human reality.
