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Movie ID: 788
RT slug: voyagers
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/voyagers
Release year: 2021
Runtime: 108 mins
Wide release date: 2021-04-09
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 25%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Adventure, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Directors: Neil Burger
Writers: Neil Burger
Producers: Basil Iwanyk, Brendon Boyea, Neil Burger
MPAA rating: PG-13
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-16 21:11:04
Updated: 2026-06-16 21:11:04
A crew of young people on a multigenerational space mission descends into fear, desire and violence after discovering unsettling truths about their lives aboard the ship.
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Canonical reviews: 142
Canonical fresh: 35
Canonical rotten: 107
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 25%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-16 13:58:59
Snapshot Tomatometer: 25%
Snapshot review count: 142
Snapshot fresh count: 35
Snapshot rotten count: 107
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| 1 | Tye Sheridan | Christopher |
| 2 | Lily-Rose Depp | Sela |
| 3 | Fionn Whitehead | Zac |
| 4 | Colin Farrell | Richard |
| 5 | Chante Adams | Phoebe |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177709 | Francesca Steele | iNews.co.uk | Rotten | 2/5 | 2024-12-10T23:39:44Z | 2024-12-10 23:39:44 | Neil Burger's implausible, strangely forgettable tale of teens running rampant on an interplanetary mission overreaches while underwriting its characters. |
| 177710 | Serena Seghedoni | Loud and Clear Reviews | Rotten | 2/5 | 2023-08-26T00:01:06Z | 2023-08-26 00:01:06 | Voyagers ends where it should have begun, taking one too many detours to tell the compelling story of the first generation of lab-bred humans on a scouting mission to space. |
| 177711 | Manuel São Bento | MSB Reviews (Ghost.io) | Rotten | D- | 2023-07-24T22:07:03Z | 2023-07-24 22:07:03 | Voyagers holds a well-known, successful sci-fi formula and takes it through the most uninteresting, unsurprising, frustratingly generic development path. It’s tough to find a positive aspect in such a hollow movie. |
| 177712 | Chase Hutchinson | The Sunbreak (Seattle, WA) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-08-17T21:48:58Z | 2022-08-17 21:48:58 | The problem is that the film is mostly made of misdirections as it gestures towards interesting elements, both narratively and visually, that are far too short lived for their own good. |
| 177713 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-08-17T20:14:04Z | 2022-08-17 20:14:04 | You can’t help but think a deeper and slightly darker version of this movie would give some of its themes even more bite. |
| 177714 | Josh Parham | Next Best Picture | Rotten | 5/10 | 2022-06-08T01:55:43Z | 2022-06-08 01:55:43 | The script fails to create a captivating plot and fills its landscape with shallow characters that are nowhere near compelling. |
| 177715 | Carson Timar | Clapper | Rotten | — | 2022-02-22T20:19:11Z | 2022-02-22 20:19:11 | The film, above and beyond anything else, is a terrible blend of uncomfortable morals and annoying immaturity that makes it clear that this project should be sent into space away from anyone who might think it is worth the time of day. |
| 177716 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2022-02-12T21:33:23Z | 2022-02-12 21:33:23 | Although many of Burger's visual techniques look neat enough, his screenplay proves unconvincing and overstated. |
| 177717 | Isaac Feldberg | Inverse | Fresh | 5/10 | 2021-11-03T20:30:36Z | 2021-11-03 20:30:36 | Think of Voyagers as High Life for himbos. |
| 177718 | John Serba | Decider | Rotten | — | 2021-10-13T17:50:46Z | 2021-10-13 17:50:46 | Its microcosmic allegory is thin, and the execution is unconvincing. |
| 177719 | Jo Berry | Movies4Kids | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-10-12T12:40:25Z | 2021-10-12 12:40:25 | Colin Farrell brings some weight to the proceedings but even he can't distract from the predictable teens-gone-wild-in-space plot. |
| 177720 | Therese Lacson | The Beat | Rotten | — | 2021-10-09T03:10:37Z | 2021-10-09 03:10:37 | Ultimately, Voyagers might appeal to a very specific YA crowd, but even they might poke their holes through this one. |
| 177721 | Kevin Maher | The Times (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-10-08T10:30:18Z | 2021-10-08 10:30:18 | "Lord of the Flies meets Sex Education in space" sounds like an unmissable yarn, yet nothing at any point in this criminally undernourished sci-fi lives up to the potential of its premise. |
| 177722 | Aine O'Connor | Sunday Independent (Ireland) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-10-07T22:50:58Z | 2021-10-07 22:50:58 | All in all, a serviceable YA sci-fi story. |
| 177723 | Ed Power | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-10-07T17:50:51Z | 2021-10-07 17:50:51 | A low-grade thriller that plays out like a zero-gravity Hollyoaks. |
| 177724 | Deirdre Molumby | entertainment.ie | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-10-06T15:31:00Z | 2021-10-06 15:31:00 | The film relies too much on sci fi clichés and the plot holes become difficult to ignore. While the acting is good, the characterisation is lazy and dull. Moreover, the production design is wanting. |
| 177725 | Andrew Murray | The Upcoming | Rotten | 3/5 | 2021-10-05T15:40:20Z | 2021-10-05 15:40:20 | Outside of the Lord of the Flies parallels, Voyagers is a familiar and rather derivative Young Adult thriller. |
| 177726 | Robin Holabird | KUNR (Reno, NV) | Fresh | — | 2021-07-16T19:00:58Z | 2021-07-16 19:00:58 | Burger guides a world that looks and moves slickly, with clean production design suiting the sleek looks of crew members who could pass as fashion models. |
| 177727 | Richard Trenholm | CNET | Fresh | — | 2021-07-14T16:01:33Z | 2021-07-14 16:01:33 | You can imagine a teacher showing this in school and then leading a class discussion about ethics until the bell rings for lunch. |
| 177728 | Susan Granger | www.susangranger.com | Rotten | 5/10 | 2021-07-13T00:44:23Z | 2021-07-13 00:44:23 | Neil Burger has updated and adapted 'Lord of the Flies' to teenagers in outer space but the characters are hopelessly superficial, chasing one another down long, antiseptic corridors. |
| 177729 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-07-08T22:13:06Z | 2021-07-08 22:13:06 | There are intriguing ideas layered throughout the premise, and some strong suspense in the storytelling, but the approach is slow, obvious and preachy. |
| 177730 | Li Lai | Mediaversity Reviews | Rotten | C | 2021-07-01T18:51:21Z | 2021-07-01 18:51:21 | Racial diversity exists in Voyagers but severe limitations remain in place. |
| 177731 | Susan Kamyab | This Chix Flix | Rotten | D- | 2021-06-22T05:51:24Z | 2021-06-22 05:51:24 | Burger's script is not bad, either, it just feels derivative. It's disappointing when the premise of the film allowed for so much more. |
| 177732 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-06-19T17:41:02Z | 2021-06-19 17:41:02 | The pitch meeting for Voyagers must have been the shortest in history. "It's Lord of the Flies in space! Now where should we go for lunch?" |
| 177733 | Ayeen Forootan | In Review Online | Rotten | — | 2021-06-06T16:12:50Z | 2021-06-06 16:12:50 | Voyagers is completely lost in an endless, empty space, gazing exclusively toward the future at the expense of the now. |
| 177734 | Stephen A. Russell | Time Out | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-05-27T23:10:21Z | 2021-05-27 23:10:21 | Voyagers is not a film blessed with subtlety, especially not when it comes to laughable wild animal montages when the kids go, err, wild |
| 177735 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Rotten | C+ | 2021-05-14T10:20:05Z | 2021-05-14 10:20:05 | A visually pleasing derivative sci-fi thriller about young space voyagers on a critical mission to colonize a distant planet, that's otherwise an underwhelming film. |
| 177736 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Rotten | C | 2021-05-10T15:00:15Z | 2021-05-10 15:00:15 | A CW-like cross between '2001' and 'Lord of the Flies' that's more misguided marriage than inspired coupling. |
| 177737 | Linda Cook | OurQuadCities / WHBF-TV (Illinois) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-05-07T05:20:20Z | 2021-05-07 05:20:20 | It's a less-than-stellar 'Lord of the Flies' in outer space with YA tropes. |
| 177738 | Steven Prokopy | Third Coast Review | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2021-05-05T00:40:29Z | 2021-05-05 00:40:29 | The film's production design and general tone are solid, but it's not quite enough to elevate the movie to greater heights. |
| 177739 | Roxana Hadadi | Polygon | Rotten | — | 2021-05-02T18:40:09Z | 2021-05-02 18:40:09 | Burger doesn't bring anything new to the material, which was lifted practically beat for beat from William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies. |
| 177740 | Ron Wilkinson | It's Just Movies | Rotten | 5/10 | 2021-05-01T04:20:19Z | 2021-05-01 04:20:19 | Aliens attacking a multi light year survival mission turn out to be the crew itself. |
| 177741 | Candice McMillan | Seattle Refined | Rotten | — | 2021-04-30T03:30:13Z | 2021-04-30 03:30:13 | Despite its flirty premise, the primary problem that "Voyagers" faces is the seriousness with which it takes the morals that rest shakily at its core. The film is eager to address age-old philosophical questions ... without any strong, clear thesis. |
| 177742 | Lauren Veneziani | DC Film Girl | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-04-29T15:10:40Z | 2021-04-29 15:10:40 | Voyagers succeeds because of the convincing performances from Lily-Rose Depp, Tye Sheridan and Fionn Whitehead. |
| 177744 | Terry Staunton | Radio Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-04-21T21:30:24Z | 2021-04-21 21:30:24 | The lab-rat nature of the characters' very existence means the performances of the movie's leads remain rooted in the cold and clinical, making it difficult for the viewer to engage with them or care about their plight. |
| 177743 | Erik Childress | eFilmCritic.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-04-21T21:30:24Z | 2021-04-21 21:30:24 | This is the rare young adult sci-fi ripoff of Lord of the Flies that actually would have benefited from being dumber. |
| 177745 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Rotten | — | 2021-04-21T04:00:25Z | 2021-04-21 04:00:25 | What's meant to be a character-driven study of primal instincts instead becomes trapped in a narrative corner. Like its passengers, Voyagers is left with no means of escape. |
| 177746 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 5/10 | 2021-04-19T03:50:06Z | 2021-04-19 03:50:06 | Too reminiscent of "Passengers" with the same payoff. Does draw attention to the rising career of Lily-Rose Depp. |
| 177747 | Anthony Lane | The New Yorker | Rotten | — | 2021-04-18T15:20:09Z | 2021-04-18 15:20:09 | Most of the youthful actors give performances of a startling lassitude, although, to be charitable, that may be the fault of the plot... |
| 177748 | David Bax | Battleship Pretension | Rotten | — | 2021-04-17T17:30:14Z | 2021-04-17 17:30:14 | ...the film devolves into formula |
| 177749 | Patrick McDonald | WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-04-17T16:00:10Z | 2021-04-17 16:00:10 | Filmmaker Neil Burger always intrigues, & pondering alpha/beta teens is LORD OF THE FLIES in spaace! A great date movie, and in space no one hears you pop a zit. Worth a look. |
| 177750 | Micheal Compton | Bowling Green Daily News | Rotten | C | 2021-04-16T22:30:42Z | 2021-04-16 22:30:42 | The film becomes increasingly complicated before running out of ideas and just collapsing into a thriller with one long -- and quite dull -- battle. |
| 177751 | Stephen Silver | Splice Today | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-04-16T21:50:35Z | 2021-04-16 21:50:35 | Despite its novel approach to sexuality in space, Voyagers barely manages not to bore completely |
| 177752 | Dustin Chase | Galveston Daily News | Rotten | C | 2021-04-16T00:40:22Z | 2021-04-16 00:40:22 | This trip to space is far less seductive than its marketing suggests. |
| 177753 | Peter Canavese | Celluloid Dreams | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2021-04-15T23:50:15Z | 2021-04-15 23:50:15 | The sci-fi premise of the colonization of space across generations deserved more focus rather than simply as an excuse for increasingly strained melodrama. |
| 177754 | Carla Hay | Culture Mix | Rotten | — | 2021-04-15T07:00:07Z | 2021-04-15 07:00:07 | Voyagers is a disappointing space travel movie that's the equivalent of being stuck on a pointless road trip with bickering 20-somethings from a bad soap opera. |
| 177755 | Russ Simmons | KKFI-FM (Kansas City) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-04-15T02:50:16Z | 2021-04-15 02:50:16 | While the premise is intriguing, the characters are dull and the movie itself starts to feel like an 80-year voyage. |
| 177756 | Aaron Neuwirth | We Live Entertainment | Rotten | 5/10 | 2021-04-14T18:50:25Z | 2021-04-14 18:50:25 | Ideally, many of the film's chief issues could be reduced to the simple understanding that young people do dumb things. |
| 177757 | Joe Friar | The Victoria Advocate | Fresh | 3/4 | 2021-04-14T18:00:20Z | 2021-04-14 18:00:20 | Burger should have gone for an R-rating instead of remaining stationary in safe YA territory. The performances by the cast stand out making this journey worthwhile. |
| 177758 | Damien Straker | Impulse Gamer | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-04-14T07:50:08Z | 2021-04-14 07:50:08 | Voyagers is a dull space drama built on large sci-fi themes over deep characters and suspense. |
| 177759 | Andy Klein | FilmWeek (LAist) | Rotten | — | 2021-04-13T00:40:18Z | 2021-04-13 00:40:18 | It's not dull, I give it that. But by the end of it, I wish there was an alien who would show up and kill all of them. |
| 177760 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2021-04-12T21:20:23Z | 2021-04-12 21:20:23 | It doesn't give themes and topics like paranoia, claustrophobia, toxic masculinity, nature versus nature and free will a particularly fresh spin, but Voyagers remains resonant enough. |
| 177761 | Al Alexander | The Patriot Ledger | Rotten | C | 2021-04-12T20:51:11Z | 2021-04-12 20:51:11 | "Voyagers" is just another empty treatise on unbending order breeding deadly disorder. |
| 177762 | M.V. Moorhead | Less Hat, Moorhead | Fresh | — | 2021-04-12T20:11:08Z | 2021-04-12 20:11:08 | [Voyagers] starts a little slow, but in its second half becomes fairly tense and gripping, with flashes of eroticism. |
| 177763 | Nicholas Bell | IONCINEMA.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-04-12T19:21:05Z | 2021-04-12 19:21:05 | In space, no one can hear teen screams in this simple but surprisingly adept formula of humans being bred solely for the continuation of the species whilst sacrificing what it is to truly feel alive. |
| 177764 | Vincent Mancini | Uproxx | Rotten | C+ | 2021-04-12T16:40:11Z | 2021-04-12 16:40:11 | "The space-teens have become dangerously horny" is a solid concept, but Voyagers soon gets bogged down in trying to be a dull YA drama. |
| 177765 | Ty Burr | Boston Globe | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2021-04-12T15:20:20Z | 2021-04-12 15:20:20 | "Voyagers" shows that Burger can still move a story along with craft, pace, and skill, even if that story is, in the end, awfully predictable. Maybe it's time he got back to the grown-ups' table. |
| 177766 | Lee McCoy | DrumDums | Rotten | 4/10 | 2021-04-12T11:50:09Z | 2021-04-12 11:50:09 | Voyagers is full of potential with the Lord of the Flies in space premise, but it falls flat due to shallow characters, a weak script, and failure to push the envelope. |
| 177767 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Rotten | 1/5 | 2021-04-12T10:30:08Z | 2021-04-12 10:30:08 | Does this film contain the most unimaginative spaceship design in the history of sci-fi? The interior of the vessel looks as though it was based on a college dorm. The only thing missing is a bong and a Jimi Hendrix poster. |
| 177768 | Sean Collier | Box Office Prophets | Fresh | 7/10 | 2021-04-11T16:50:20Z | 2021-04-11 16:50:20 | Somewhat grim outlook aside, though, Voyagers is a gripping, tight thriller. |
| 177769 | Michael Ward | Should I See It | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-04-11T15:50:08Z | 2021-04-11 15:50:08 | Neil Burger's new film might have been better served as an episodic series on a network like the CW or Freeform. |
| 177770 | Wenlei Ma | News.com.au | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2021-04-11T07:50:09Z | 2021-04-11 07:50:09 | The characters have so little development, they don't even reach archetypes level. |
| 177771 | Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-04-10T19:50:13Z | 2021-04-10 19:50:13 | If only the movie stayed with its premise, it would be a lot better than it is. Voyagers unfortunately strays from it on a regular basis. |
| 177772 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Fresh | B | 2021-04-10T19:00:12Z | 2021-04-10 19:00:12 | A slick sci-fi thriller that makes engaging use of prominent themes from Burger's prolific past decade. |
| 177773 | Bill Newcott | The Saturday Evening Post | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-04-10T16:00:14Z | 2021-04-10 16:00:14 | It's frankly a tough sell to accept social moralizing from a gang of Barbie and Ken clones. Not surprisingly, the film works best when it settles into being a straight-up outer space adventure yarn, briskly paced and lushly envisioned. |
| 177774 | Robert Denerstein | Denerstein Unleashed | Rotten | — | 2021-04-10T00:50:51Z | 2021-04-10 00:50:51 | Intermittent moments of tension can be found, but the movie's desire to see what happens when characters are freed from restraints never feels dangerous, edgy, or fresh enough to find new life. |
| 177775 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-04-10T00:10:49Z | 2021-04-10 00:10:49 | Star Lord of the Flies or Piggy in Space... but very one-dimensionally written |
| 177776 | Jake Wilson | The Age (Australia) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-04-09T22:40:40Z | 2021-04-09 22:40:40 | This curious but engaging parable has its own speculative side, grounded mostly in the soft sciences: sociology, for instance, with a hint of the nature-or-nurture debate. |
| 177777 | Don Shanahan | Every Movie Has a Lesson | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-04-09T22:10:47Z | 2021-04-09 22:10:47 | Rather than build with ominous magnitude, its entire conflict feels like a brief weekend bender of bad choices, at best. |
| 177778 | Cynthia Vinney | CBR | Rotten | — | 2021-04-09T22:10:46Z | 2021-04-09 22:10:46 | Unfortunately, the final act devolves into a predictable, action-heavy conflict, and ultimately comes to a pat conclusion that feels much too easy given everything that came before. |
| 177779 | Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-04-09T21:40:45Z | 2021-04-09 21:40:45 | It's the kind of premise that you can imagine would have been better served by a limited series with time to get to know and like at least some of the characters so that there are some stakes. |
| 177780 | Josh Kupecki | Austin Chronicle | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-04-09T21:30:44Z | 2021-04-09 21:30:44 | It's a lazy film, one whose future will most likely live on in mediocre undergraduate term papers. Oh, the humanity. |
| 177781 | Tom Meek | Cambridge Day | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-04-09T21:20:41Z | 2021-04-09 21:20:41 | The problem is that everything feels staged and unfelt. |
| 177782 | Stephen Garrett | Book & Film Globe | Rotten | 3/5 | 2021-04-09T21:20:40Z | 2021-04-09 21:20:40 | Voyagers takes a head-trip premise and turns it into a real snooze cruise. |
| 177783 | Frank Wilkins | Reel Reviews | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-04-09T21:20:36Z | 2021-04-09 21:20:36 | There's enough good stuff going on - including an intriguing premise, a stellar cast, and phenomenally well-crafted set pieces - to make it a fun watch. |
| 177784 | James Verniere | Boston Herald | Rotten | C+ | 2021-04-09T20:40:32Z | 2021-04-09 20:40:32 | Sulking teens in outer space. From the director who brought you Divergent. |
| 177785 | Peter Sobczynski | eFilmCritic.com | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-04-09T20:10:31Z | 2021-04-09 20:10:31 | Voyagers is a bad and clunky movie throughout, but the first thing about it is that even as it is falling apart before your eyes, you can still imagine how the same basic premise might have worked in the hands of a more competent filmmaker. |
| 177786 | Dan Lybarger | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Rotten | 80/100 | 2021-04-09T20:00:31Z | 2021-04-09 20:00:31 | Like its subjects, Voyagers is a little too earnest for its own good. |
| 177787 | Jim Judy | Screen It! | Rotten | 5/10 | 2021-04-09T19:01:17Z | 2021-04-09 19:01:17 | There are few surprises here once the hormonal genie, so to speak, is out of the bottle, right down to how the villain will ultimately be dispatched. |
| 177788 | Graeme Tuckett | The Post NZ | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-04-09T18:51:21Z | 2021-04-09 18:51:21 | It settles instead for looking and sounding like every young-adult sci-fi of the last decade or more, with interchangeable characters spitting low-level banalities at each other within the exact same sterile white walls of every movie spaceship ever. |
| 177789 | Kurt Loder | Reason Online | Rotten | — | 2021-04-09T18:41:21Z | 2021-04-09 18:41:21 | In space, no one can hear you snooze. |
| 177790 | Julian Roman | MovieWeb | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-04-09T18:21:25Z | 2021-04-09 18:21:25 | Voyagers takes an initially intriguing sci-fi premise down a predictable path. A solid lead performance from Tye Sheridan adds the needed gravitas to stave off absurdity. |
| 177791 | Linda and Al Lerner | Movies and Shakers | Rotten | — | 2021-04-09T18:11:24Z | 2021-04-09 18:11:24 | This becomes a series of scenes that don't seem to flow or follow well. And most of it, including the climax, is absolutely predictable. With so many black holes in this space trip, think twice before booking a ticket for this voyage. |
| 177792 | Jeff York | The Establishing Shot | Rotten | 1/4 | 2021-04-09T17:31:22Z | 2021-04-09 17:31:22 | Instead of asking such obvious questions about time and travel and confinement, the film seems content to merely play out as Lord of the Flies in space. |
| 177793 | David Fear | Rolling Stone | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-04-09T16:41:31Z | 2021-04-09 16:41:31 | You want it to be a little more cosmic-sloppy, more hormonal, more unbridled. It needs more WWLCD: What Would Larry Clark Do? |
| 177794 | Alex Bentley | CultureMap | Rotten | — | 2021-04-09T16:31:27Z | 2021-04-09 16:31:27 | Instead of trying to address ethical and philosophical questions in any meaningful way, Voyagers instead throws a bunch of hormonal teenagers together merely to see what happens. |
| 177795 | Christy Lemire | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2021-04-09T16:11:24Z | 2021-04-09 16:11:24 | But despite the familiar nature of the themes writer/director Neil Burger is exploring, his film still offers plenty of tension and his trademark visual panache. |
| 177796 | Peter Travers | ABC News | Rotten | — | 2021-04-09T15:20:38Z | 2021-04-09 15:20:38 | Despite an intriguing premise that suggests a "Lord of the Flies" in space, this thriller about young hotties playing astronauts quickly devolves into a dud that never makes sense of its borrowed convictions or any sense at all. |
| 177797 | Matt Oakes | Silver Screen Riot | Rotten | C+ | 2021-04-09T15:20:37Z | 2021-04-09 15:20:37 | There's philosophical intrigue about the ethics of control but it's left by the wayside to focus on middling teenage angst and murderous power struggles. |
| 177798 | Alonso Duralde | TheWrap | Fresh | — | 2021-04-09T15:20:35Z | 2021-04-09 15:20:35 | A smart and effective little sci-fi thriller about the best-laid plans of scientists crumbling in the face of teenage hormones and human frailty. |
| 177799 | Tom Santilli | Movie Show Plus | Rotten | C+ | 2021-04-09T14:11:01Z | 2021-04-09 14:11:01 | Despite the talented young cast and a sleek, futuristic look, Voyagers drifts a little too far away from relevancy. |
| 177800 | Jonathan W. Hickman | The Newnan Times-Herald | Rotten | 5/10 | 2021-04-09T14:00:34Z | 2021-04-09 14:00:34 | Burger, the director who gave us the middling "Divergent" adaptation, goes for a heavy-handed, somber morality play, where a campy, sexy science fiction thriller would have served him better. |
| 177801 | Kevin Brackett | ReviewSTL.com | Fresh | C+ | 2021-04-09T13:30:32Z | 2021-04-09 13:30:32 | Though familiar, the film is entertaining enough with the futuristic premise and slick set design that it's probably worth taking the trip into space... |
| 177802 | Eli Friedberg | The Film Stage | Rotten | C- | 2021-04-09T13:00:32Z | 2021-04-09 13:00:32 | It's a familiar traced sketch of 20th century imagined dystopias, but Gen-Z trappings evocative of our own looming dystopia offer a slightly new shade of color. It just isn't vivid enough. |
| 177803 | Paul McGuire Grimes | Paul's Trip to the Movies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-04-09T11:30:24Z | 2021-04-09 11:30:24 | It's hard to tell if Neil Burger bit off more than he could chew so he steered this in an easier direction or if the marketing materials make it edgier and sexier than the actual movie. |
| 177804 | Alison Willmore | New York Magazine/Vulture | Rotten | — | 2021-04-09T10:40:22Z | 2021-04-09 10:40:22 | Voyagers, in keeping its focus where it does, feels like a waste not just because of how predictable its beats are, but because it ends just when it feels like it's getting interesting. |
| 177805 | Randy Myers | San Jose Mercury News | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-04-09T10:30:21Z | 2021-04-09 10:30:21 | The story is all over the map, and "Voyagers" never capitalizes on its intriguing premise. |
| 177806 | Sara Michelle Fetters | MovieFreak.com | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2021-04-09T07:20:09Z | 2021-04-09 07:20:09 | While almost none of what transpires is a surprise, the film is solidly crafted and features a handful of strong performances. |
| 177807 | Marianna Neal | Impression Blend | Rotten | 6/10 | 2021-04-09T07:10:08Z | 2021-04-09 07:10:08 | [Voyagers] has a lot of wasted potential, and with better writing and better characters it really could have been something a lot more special. |
| 177808 | Leo Brady | AMovieGuy.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2021-04-09T03:10:21Z | 2021-04-09 03:10:21 | It's easy to claim that Voyagers is Lord of the Flies in space, and it is, which is what makes it good, but it's also a fascinating study of gaslighting and how fear can push the masses to follow a mad man. |
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