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      • The Space Between Us is a joyless, consistently mediocre movie, with only the loosest understanding of plot mechanics and an even looser understanding of logic.
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  2. Feb 2, 2017 · While the idea of moving to Mars might not sound so terrible right about now, “The Space Between Us” is about a young man who’s spent all of his 16 years on the red planet and can’t wait to visit Earth—specifically, to meet the cute high school girl with whom he’s sparked an online flirtation.

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  3. Teen sci-fi romance is sweet, if not out of this world. Read Common Sense Media's The Space Between Us review, age rating, and parents guide.

    • Peter Chelsom
    • Sandie Angulo Chen
    • Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Gary Oldman
    • A boy born on Mars comes to Earth and (apparently) learns what it means to be human.
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    By Alex Welch

    Updated: Feb 3, 2017 12:31 am

    Posted: Feb 3, 2017 12:30 am

    The Space Between Us opens just as a team of astronauts, led by Sarah Elliott (Janet Montgomery), are about to begin their journey to explore Mars through a base created by the enigmatic Nathaniel Shepherd (Gary Oldman). Only, midway through their journey, it’s revealed that Sarah is pregnant and after landing on Mars - she gives birth to a boy named Gardner (Asa Butterfield), the first child ever born on the planet. Sarah dies just mere seconds afterwards, and instead of bringing him back to Earth (which would be too dangerous), Nathaniel and his corporate associates cover the whole scandal up.

    But cut to 16 years later, and Gardner is a curious boy who wants to learn about what life is actually like on Earth; a boy who’s tired of watching the planet only through the prism of the movies he owns. It also doesn’t help that he’s growing more and more infatuated with Tulsa (Britt Robertson), a perpetually angry outsider living in Colorado that regularly video chats with him. So through a series of superfluous corporate meetings and heated discussions, Gardner eventually gets his wish and is sent to Earth for the first time alongside his guardian/foster mother, Kendra (Carla Gugino). But when he gets sick of being trapped in quarantine for days on end, Gardner runs away and journeys to meet up with Tulsa, and convince her to help him find his biological father.

    At the heart of that unnecessarily convoluted story is an undeniably sweet premise about a boy trying to find out where he came from and who he wants to be. You might even go into The Space Between Us expecting it to be the kind of unabashedly optimistic and cheesy Nicholas Sparks-esque teen romance (like I did), and to be honest, you might even be looking forward to that. A bit of good old fashioned, romantic optimism can be good for the soul. Unfortunately, where it could have very easily been that, The Space Between Us seems to stubbornly reject any notion that its story is cheesy, which results in it being a confusing, frustrating film.

    Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino, and Britt Robertson all do their best to bring life to The Space Between Us, a film which nevertheless is unable to bring anything real or palpable to the artificial heart beating at the center of it.

    • Alex Welch
  4. The Space Between Us strands its star-crossed young lovers in a mind-numbingly vast expanse of shameless cheese that will send all but the most forgiving viewers eye-rolling for the exits.

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    • Peter Chelsom
    • PG-13
    • Gary Oldman
  5. The Space Between Us is a joyless, consistently mediocre movie, with only the loosest understanding of plot mechanics and an even looser understanding of logic. Full Review | Mar 27, 2020

  6. Feb 3, 2017 · For a movie about a boy from Mars who comes to Earth to search for his father and ends up finding his first love, The Space Between Us is shockingly dull.

  7. Feb 3, 2017 · Two months into the trip, lead astronaut Sarah Elliot (Janet Montgomery) discovers she’s pregnant. Too risky to return home, they decide she should have the baby on Mars, knowing her child may...

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