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The Space Between Us
U/A (INDIA)
2017
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The Space Between Us
Positive Reviews
23
Negative reviews
86
Average Rating
1.9
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3.0
Its the kind of processed cheese tearjerker, completely devoid of shame, that can harden even the easiest criers into heckling cynics. You want to tak ..
Av Club
2.5
The movie tends to fluctuate between being corny, sappy, and outright ridiculous.
Den Of Geek
1.5
Unfortunately, Gardners physiology isnt accustomed to Earths gravity, so it turns into something of a race against time.
Den Of Geek
3.0
The Space Between Us attempts to take young love to literally new heights before crash landing into an earthbound hash of schmaltzy clichs and romanti ..
EW
1.9
The twists are just unbearably ridiculous, which drains all the power out of their supposed catharsis.
Rogerebert
3.0
Mars is such a perfectly natural setting for a genre that has wasted millions upon millions of dollars searching for signs of life. Alas, there are no ..
Indie Wire
0.5
Feels like a series of scenic car commercials, smothered in obnoxious emo ballads by the likes of Ingrid Michaelson and James Bay, or else the screens ..
Variety
2.5
The Space Between Us is a tender love story slog thats built with the best messages, but weakened by Men Are From Mars goofball antics.
We Got This Covered
2.0
Wont come close to troubling your heartstrings, let alone the space between your ears.
Time Out
1.0
Shes been in and out of foster homes her whole life; hes told her hes confined to home with a rare disease.
The Guardian
1.5
The Space Between Us is simply disappointing when it isnt trying to browbeat its audience into emotional submission.
0.5
While its easy to see the potential of the story and what could have been with better direction, better writing, and better acting, The Space Between ..
Collider
1.5
There isnt an ounce of emotional honesty or nuance in The Space Between Us, so the film is largely rendered inert.
Collider
1.5
Sluggishly paced and tonally wobbly, the pic, much like its teenage protagonist, suffers under its own weight.
The Hollywood Reporter
1.5
With the disappearance of video stores, there is something heartening about the existence of The Space Between Us, a cheesy hunk of science fiction fr ..
The New York Times
2.0
Unable to bring anything real or palpable to the artificial heart beating at the center of it.
IGN
1.5
You may very well laugh and cry during The Space Between Us, though probably at the wrong times and for entirely unintended reasons.
2.5
It presents a compelling situation, genuinely touching moments and pockets of strong acting ... and dialogue that has people in the audience turning t ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
The Space Between Us certainly had potential. However, it fails to reach the same lengths its very characters already had.
The Young Folks
1.5
An interesting premise fails to ignite amid an underwritten central romance and some clichd plotting. An often eye rolling ride.
2.0
Its taken longer than expected for The Space Between Us to make it into theaters. After now having seen it, however, it is understandable why this fil ..
Cinema Blend
1.5
Butterfield and Oldman arent enough to save this too cheesy sci fi road movie.
JoBlo
1.9
A shameless pastiche of Starmans alien on Earth sci fi, The Boy in the Plastic Bubbles medical pathos and any number of young lovers on the run storie ..
The Globe And Mail
1.5
The only good thing to come from this is the opportunity for Gary Oldman to impersonate space travel impresario Richard Branson, and even that gets ol ..
Philly
2.5
As The Space Between Us resorts to generic pandering by catering to its core demographic of teens and young adults looking for a date movie around Val ..
3.0
A bland romance on the run movie that might not actually be based on a YA novel, but sure feels as though it were.
One Guys Opinion
1.9
The world doesnt know hes on Mars, how could she But hormones being hormones, Gardner is ready to fly.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.5
The Space between Us is what it looks like when a promising premise is betrayed by a dumbed down, hackneyed screenplay.
ReelViews
1.5
This corny sci fi drama abounds with annoying plot holes and product placements, and the 2017 teenspeak (You ghosted me!) will probably sound dated to ..
Chicago Reader
1.9
Loeb crosses the line from sincere to cornball without a trace of self awareness...
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
Working with a screenplay by Collateral Beautys Allan Loeb that crosses Roman Holiday with E.T., Chelsom fumbles his films sweet romance for preteens ..
1.9
The whole sci fi narrative collapses into a mess of illogical story beats and groan inducing quasi tragic bits right out of Love Story.
Usa Today
4.4
Chelsoms penchant for wild tonal shifts doesnt help matters, certainly, nor does an overlong running time thats compounded by an almost endless third ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
It manages, nonetheless, to shrink all narrative possibilities down into a bitty best of compilation thats notable only for some horrendously bad scie ..
The Times
3.0
Viewed as a harmless sci fi tinged teen drama, it passes the time pleasantly enough.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
A galactic level of schmaltz is poured into this fish out of water story, spelling out how were meant to feel in a way that becomes irritating long be ..
Radio Times
0.5
More boring than a six month trip to the Red Planet. (Full Content Review for Parents Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, etc. also Available)
Screen It
3.1
By the time you get to the money shot of two lovers kissing in zero gravity, youll either be deep in this movies pocket or have fallen into a diabetic ..
Rolling Stone
2.0
Ultimately, this is just a bad movie about a Martian and his girlfriend playing hide and seek from some space cops.
Pop Matters
0.5
Its hard not to engage in eye rolling over what already promises to be one of 2017s worst movies: The Space Between Us spends so much time piling one ..
The Wrap
2.5
The movie often delivers on its promises. It is also, however, one clumsily plotted flick, with a screenplay by Allan Loeb that gambles everything on ..
News Day
2.5
If Nicholas Sparks wrote science fiction, he might come up with something like this teen soap in which boys are, like, literally from another planet.
New York Post
1.5
It doesnt help that Butterfield and Robertson have little charisma and even less chemistry. Two hours is too high a price to pay for this saga that go ..
Hindustan Times
2.5
The film is never allowed to breathe. Its rushed, and its a shame.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.0
It seems unfinished, choppy, the storytelling almost of the after school special variety.
Az Central
1.5
The corn is fertilized by a ponderous score and a handful of bland folkie rock tunes.
Npr
2.5
Now 16, Gardner wants to find his mystery dad and meet up with Tulsa, a Colorado teen hes met on social media, even if his Mars raised body isnt made ..
Toronto Star
1.5
Chelsom attempts to hurdle the screenplays cavalier attitude towards science with mixed results.
Film Inquiry
3.0
Too bad this sweet, teenage sci fi adventure/romance only achieves a lukewarm launch.
Susang Ranger
1.5
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Time
2.0
From the title and ripped off plot to Brit Robertsons Rebel Without a Cause routine, awful.
Boston Herald
1.5
For this isnt just a boy meets love story, this is a boy with an enlarged heart meeting an orphaned girl story.
The New Indian Express
2.0
This is a film that doesnt stick with any genre, but instead clumsily navigates between three, ultimately leaving the viewer feeling shortchanged in e ..
The Film Stage
2.5
If youre 13 and have a purple streak, youll probably be sobbing happily into your box of rubberized nachos. The rest of us can only wonder if we were ..
Boston Globe
2.5
The science is sidelined in favor of a Nicholas Sparks style doomed romance, with cheesy sentiment in place of philosophical and ethical concerns.
Las Vegas Weekly
1.5
One expects plotholes and impossible occurrences in science fiction films. But this one breaks the mold. The silliness of these scenes is what really ..
Tony Medley
2.5
Honestly, the only reason the film didnt grate on my nerves more than it did had everything to do with Robertson.
Movie Freak
2.5
A cloying high concept melodrama which mistakes sentimentality for actual truths about the human condition.
1.9
Despite the multiple genres, The Space Between Us feels thin in its plot, and corny in the telling...
Groucho Reviews
2.0
It juggles too many interesting story threads in the air and ends up doing justice to none of them.
Forbes
2.5
As the token adults, Carla Gugino looks concerned, which is understandable, and Gary Oldman shouts a lot, possibly to keep himself awake.
Nj
1.0
Its as if Nicolas Sparks has written a sci fi and honestly, its just as bad as that sounds.
Hey U Guys
2.0
This is a saccharine science fiction romance that doesnt actually concern itself with science fiction or romance; instead, its the equivalent of astro ..
The Play List
3.0
Theres a sweetness not to be confused with a saccharine quality to this pic, made all the more appealing by its two young leads and a story that hurtl ..
Now Toronto
1.5
The space part of the title barely works. But at least the between us moments do.
Scroll
1.5
Its a shame that this teen romance takes so painfully long to get to the heart of the matter.
Ner Dist
3.0
...a touching teenage love story about a couple literally from two worlds, and with Valentines Day nearly upon us, a fitting date night at the movies.
Maki At The Movies
2.0
The Space Between Us is romantic science fiction with zero gravity and less to recommend. Its space is between its ears, a YA fantasy cribbed from ali ..
Tamp A Bay
0.5
The Space Between Us is terrible at explaining itself in any other way than Gary Oldman is a genius space inventor!
The Stranger
1.5
Perhaps it is poetic justice that Gardners heart gives out when Tulsa and Gardner are in the heart of Las Vegas (too bad that heart didnt give out).
Film Racket
1.5
What promised to be an original and alluring idea falls flat from a great height with a stratospheric splat.
The Sun
0.5
Every once in a while a movie proves to be truly inexplicable. Not because of the plot, or why the characters do what they do, but because of an ineff ..
Wsj
2.0
Transpiring sometime in the not too distant future, The Space between Us mixes sci fi drama, road trip tropes and teen romance into sugary goo that ne ..
Patriot Ledger
3.1
Butterfield and Robertson do have some charming chemistry, and Chelsoms workmanlike direction gives them some nice moments together.
Sltrib
1.0
The space between us and this excruciating nonsense isnt nearly far enough.
Scmp
1.5
It doesnt particularly help that the script, written by Allan Loeb (the writer of last years critically panned Collateral Beauty), imagines almost eve ..
Ign
1.5
Its so straightforward that if youve heard the plot...you can probably guess everything about the story, the conflict, and all of the things its going ..
Io9 Gizmodo
2.0
Science fiction meets young adult romance in the mostly forgettable The Space Between Us. The film has an interesting premise, but suffers from poor d ..
Movie Web
2.0
This is pretty much an interesting tale which because of its teen protagonists could make a hit with high schoolers here, containing nothing that coul ..
Shockya
3.0
Teen girls especially ought to love this fish out of Mars tale that features an engaging turn from Asa Butterfield and some nice elements that make fo ..
Dead Line
2.0
It tries so hard, melding so many genres, offering a rare (mostly) positive look at the near future in the age of Black Mirror, that you want to hug i ..
Metro New York
2.0
Cant overcome a shaky premise that only gets shakier as the film goes along.
Bowling Green Daily News
2.0
A teen audience may appreciate the starry eyed romance but this space adventure is a disappointingly formulaic affair.
Scifi Now
0.5
Which is appropriate because shes like a tenth year senior and hes three.
Lainey Gossip
1.5
This sci fi action adventure romance has fine performances and real comic potential but is laden down with excess.
Film Journal International ..
2.0
Unfortunately, its noble efforts are hampered by troubled beginnings, which spiral into a very problematic third act that ultimately self destructs.
Fresh Fiction
1.5
Every bad element about this film whether being the story, the direction, or Gary Oldmans performance doesnt compare to Allan Loebs screenplay.
Rendy Reviews
1.5
Its a film of complete missed opportunities and bad plot decisions.
Third Coast Review
2.0
chemistry is also non existent, making their on screen romance even harder to swallow.
The New Paper
2.0
In the big cosmic picture, it feels trivial. And maybe its also this: in the current reality of 21st century life, weve had our fill of science trumpe ..
Winnipeg Free Press
3.0
The plot points feel preordained by horoscope, as though Gardners astral backyard gave him control over the stars. Yet, Butterfield nearly makes the n ..
M Tv
3.0
Its a tough task blending teen romance with sci fi, but director Peter Chelsom concocts a pretty good hybrid in a film that delivers some enjoyable hi ..
Tiny Url
2.0
An intriguing premise is repeatedly undercut by clunky dialog and corny plot twists.
Movie Mom
2.0
Not as bad as I thought it would be but this aimed at team romance about a kid from Mars is tedious on this or any other planet.
Tri City Herald
1.0
Ive always said that Ill give any film at least one star because its in focus. This movie was in focus. Do yourself a favor and put as much space as p ..
Media Mikes
3.0
A simple boy meets girl story gussied up with extraneous detail and stretched to an unconscionable two hours.
Toronto Sun
3.5
Sporting a fake tan, bespoke tailored clothing and shoes, and a lush mane of Branson esque hair, Oldman doesnt hold back for even a moment.
2.0
The Space Between Us is another youthful romantic film disguised as science fiction.
2.5
A special kind of bad movie, borne out of loopy misguided ideas rather than lazy, callous ones (the latter is far more common).
Sf Examiner
2.5
Shouldnt a sci fi love story like The Space Between Us have a little, you know, brains behind it
Hollywood Into To
0.0
Butterfields lack of affect works more often than it doesnt, but hes almost too disconnected; hes hard to root for.
3.1
He is allegedly some kind of genius boy, but he dumbs down in order to play the fish out of water routine.
Heral
2.0
Has some good moments but in its attempt to be all things clutters up a story that would have been better served by streamlining the story and tone.
Richard Crouse
1.5
Neither credible nor fanciful, The Space Between Us travels the vast distance to Mars and back, but winds up going nowhere.
Denerstein Unleashed Blog ..
0.5
The hour of film that passes until the boy travels and meets his virtual partner on Earth feels like an eternity.
3.0
Thematically, The Space Between Us may speak to teens who feel disenfranchised and misunderstood. Ultimately, though, its a case study of a great conc ..
Abc News Go
1.0
Tries to do a lot of things and fails at just about all of them (Splice Today)
Splice Today
2.0
Like something Nicholas Sparks might have strung together on a sugar rush after eating too much freeze dried astronaut ice cream and washing it down w ..
Parade
1.5
Were left with a sweeping teenage romance, which is fine thanks to the films two young leads, but wastes a pretty spectacular setup.
L.A. Biz
1.0
This is a movie where I found myself wishing that each and every one of the characters met some grisly fate that would allow the credits to roll and m ..
FanboyNation.com
2.5
If you are a hormonal, romantic, teenage girl with a crush on Butterfield, you will want to buy a ticket to this film.
FlickDirect
1.5
The main plot is insanely preposterous, but it might have worked if the story had taken a more focused and bittersweet bent.
Pgh City Paper
1.5
The Space Between Us bears faint echoes of other outer space sagas but carves its own niche because its hero is a teenage boy. Its a sweet, innocuous ..
Leonard Mal
0.5
The young female viewers of The Space Between Us deserve better than stories where their entire identities are obliterated by guys who are so blandly ..
Chesapeake Family
3.0
As much as I admire it, I dont think Id ever want to watch it again.
rachelsreviews.net
2.0
Lets save the hemming and hawing, The Space Between Us is terrible. No need to add much else to the sentiment. It is a bad film that you will have a b ..
Silver Screen Riot
1.5
The Space Between Us is a joyless, consistently mediocre movie, with only the loosest understanding of plot mechanics and an even looser understanding ..
0.5
Its been a long time since I have seen a movie this confounding. What in the hell is happening here And who the hell did they think would be the targe ..
The Movie Minute
1.5
Chelsom and Loeb are the kind of filmmakers whose faces should be attached to any number of grievances from nonwhite, nonmale directors having a rough ..
Bk Mag
3.0
Fine performances by Asa Butterfield and Britt Robertson make this a pleasing little romantic adventure with a touch of sci fi.
Movie Reviews Cinemaclips
2.0
And despite the shockingly little screentime said love story gets, its by far the most compelling thing about the film.
The Pop Break
1.5
Peter Chelsom ( ... ) keeps the movie firmly grounded in maudlin mediocrity.
S Fist
4.5
Has a few groan worthy moments when the dialogue is painfully predictable and corny but its charming and sweet, a type of film that we all need every ..
Rogues Portal
1.9
However, one is not so convinced that the Young Adult (YA) genre is convincingly elevated by a flimsy frontier sci fi romancer among the Clearasil cro ..
1.5
Good idea. Badly executed. The film doesnt know to decide if it wants to be a love story, or the search for a son by its father.
Siete24.mx
3.2
An intriguing premise is repeatedly undercut by clunky dialog and corny plot twists.
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