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This psychological thriller, set in space, enters theaters this week.
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A scene from Voyagers.
For everyone eager to return to life in all its infinite pleasures after a pandemic, Voyagers is bound to touch a nerve.
This psychological thriller, set in space and entering theaters this week, is all about what happens to our heads and hearts after we emerge from a lockdown.
Sadly, the usually astute writer-director Neil Burger ( The Illusionist, Limitless, The Upside ) botches his provocative premise: What if 30 test-tube babies who never see sunshine or the outside world are sent on a space mission to colonize a new planet since Earth has been infected and climate-changed into near oblivion.
Voyagers Gets Blasted On Rotten Tomatoes
Voyagersis getting blasted on
Rotten Tomatoes after the initial wave of critic reviews has been released. At the time of writing this,
Voyagers sits at a measly 29% on the Tomatometer with 31 reviews submitted. The aggregate site has released a Critics Consensus that reads It has a game cast and a premise ripe with potential, but Voyagers drifts in familiar orbit rather than fully exploring its intriguing themes. Ouch. Doesn t sound like the greatest incentive for getting moviegoers back in the theater. The film is the latest sci-fi parable by
Here s the premise of
Voyagers, which stars Tye Sheridan (