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IO

2019

Jonathan Helpert

Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston

4.2

4,062

Sci-Fi Sam, a teenage girl, is one of the last people on a post-cataclysmic Earth. With the final shuttle scheduled to leave the planet, she must decide whether to journey to the launch point and join the rest of humanity, or remain on Earth, a castaway in the only home she has ever known.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"[It] marries admirable ambition with inconsistent plotting (...) 'IO' may not know what story it is telling, but as it stands on current Earth, it knows exactly where it belongs (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Seward Jr. IGN	"A more intimate but not necessarily always compelling take on the post-apocalyptic genre (...) Margaret Qualley and Anthony Mackie provide competent performances. The script doesn’t lend itself to anything truly profound"	NEU
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"Qualley and Mackie struggle to find chemistry (...) However pure its intentions, 'IO' is genre minimalism to a fault (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
Canada	Shelagh Rowan-Legg Screen Anarchy	"Tension is thick (...) 'Io' is that rare science fiction film that asks us to look beyond aliens, spaceships, and technology"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"There's barely a scene in 'IO' that's performed with pulse or verve (...) The visuals occasionally mitigate the tedium"	NEU

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