Spaceman
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 1, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
20
Negative:
3
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60
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsMar 1, 2024
Beautifully crafted but tragically underbaked, 'Spaceman' had the blueprints for Adam Sandler's best-ever dramatic vehicle, but wound up becoming the most unrealized one. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyFeb 29, 2024
Sandler’s performance, Jan Houllevigue’s post-Soviet production designs and Max Richter’s soaring score enliven a handsome if dreary drama. The pacing, alas, is painfully slow, and every character save the spider is underwritten. Read full review
60
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 28, 2024
It’s Dano who floats away with the most goodwill, giving Hanus a tender, ultimately haunting air despite being, you know, a horrendously frightening creature that, in a parallel universe, might’ve inspired Stephen King to write It. Read full review
60
ColliderRoss BonaimeFeb 26, 2024
Spaceman is a rocky journey, but in times like these and thanks to Sandler’s performance, it’s often worth the trip. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 21, 2024
A lot of solid craftsmanship has gone into Spaceman, and there’s a disarming guilelessness to the solemn storytelling that has some appeal. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 21, 2024
We’re missing any real sense of awe – but for all its faults, this lands somewhere between noble failure and endearing oddity. Read full review
58
Original-CinKaren GordonMar 4, 2024
That it falters under the weight of its earnest ambitions doesn’t mean that we don’t get its heartfelt healing message. But that earnestness, and a distracting plot device never quite takes off. Read full review
57
Paste MagazineDom SinacolaFeb 29, 2024
Despite Sandler’s powerful sincerity, Spaceman misses the joke. Read full review
55
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaFeb 28, 2024
Spaceman fails to grab our attention and, like Sandler's character, feels adrift. But as the journey towards the Chopra cloud — which Hanuš describes as "the beginning of everything" — continues, the conversations between spaceman and space spider grow warm, thoughtful, and even charming. Read full review
50
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiMar 1, 2024
The most glaring issue with Spaceman is that the leap from page to screen leaves quite a bit of the story behind and saddles its lead actor with much of the heavy lifting. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMar 1, 2024
Strives for stratospheric emotional heights and yet proves so self-seriously somber and saccharine that it plays like a leaden parody. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubManuel BetancourtFeb 29, 2024
While others may find in this visually arresting outer space drama a probing meditation on grief and marriage (not to mention human alienation writ-large), I never did warm up to this Colby Day-penned character study, finding it much too caught up in its own ambitions to make its emotional beats pay off. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 28, 2024
If there’s one thing interesting about “Spaceman,” it’s how it demonstrates how a great actress’ essence — just the essence, not even the performance — can elevate a nothing part. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryFeb 26, 2024
Spaceman feels a little too weighty in its reliance on emotional cliches. Whether that’s ultimately due to the underlying material or the heavy hand brought to translating it, the net effect is a failure to launch. Read full review
50
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaFeb 22, 2024
Despite thoughtful visual artistry, and a great dramatic performance from Adam Sandler, Johan Renck’s Spaceman ends up too scattered, and too literal, to make its tale of a lonely astronaut feel remotely important. Read full review
50
IndieWireRyan LattanzioFeb 22, 2024
Renck’s film leaves [Sandler] quite literally lost in space with nowhere to go, and rather than leave us with new perspectives on space travel or marital discord or an awe-eyed curiosity about either, we leave with a shrug. Read full review
50
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganFeb 21, 2024
It’s just so hard to buy into Spaceman. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 5, 2024
The film presents Jakub’s memories in such fragmented fashion that we can’t really piece together any kind of emotional through-line; we’re told about it, but we can’t really feel it, which renders the movie didactic and tedious. Read full review
40
VarietyOwen GleibermanFeb 21, 2024
Spaceman, it’s my duty to report, is a glum and meandering science-fiction fairy tale of a movie. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 21, 2024
It’s a spaceflight to nowhere. Read full review
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