2021 · sci-fi · drama · thriller
Stowaway
Directed by Joe Penna1h 56m2021
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
Our read: Stowaway (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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