At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander's mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him.... (Full plot summary below)
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At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander's mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him.
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| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzLuckily, the performances and characterizations add heft, and the very Russian vibe of soulful heaviness sets it apart from its American cousins. |
| UproxxVince ManciniMostly, everything in it seems designed to build and maintain suspense that carries us from scene to scene, a task it more than accomplishes. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe clever and nicely gory Sputnik comes from Russia with love, slime, and an impressive lesson in efficient, low-cost pulp filmmaking. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyWhile Sputnik doesn’t make its substantial borrowings from other sci-fi pictures entirely new, it does juice them up enough to yield a genuinely scary and satisfying experience. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAll the same, strong performances, strikingly spare production design and somber cinematography convey a sense of something important going on. That’s no small achievement in what proves to be a creature feature with flair. |
| Austin ChronicleMatthew MonagleIn an era where so many horror films are anchored in the aesthetics of Eighties American cinema, Sputnik establishes itself as an especially polished work of retro-futurism. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe film swerves from sci-fi to horror to psychological thriller to melodrama, but in a way, it works. It’s clear Abramenko wants to serve a full-course meal of a movie, and in stretching the dynamic range of emotion he hits on moments that are at times operatic and at others somewhat soapy. But in doing so, brings a new layer of story that makes Sputnik feel epic. |
| Film ThreatAlex SavelievDespite all the flaws, Sputnik has one chief thing going for it: it holds your attention, from the first (and arguably best) twenty minutes, to the last (and arguably worst) twenty. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriThe new Russian horror film Sputnik whipsaws between suggested horror and schlock so furiously that it turns inconsistency into a virtue. It’s a creepy chamber drama that morphs regularly into an effects-laden ick-fest. But transformation is in the film’s DNA. |
| IndieWireEric KohnIt’s an efficient, effects-driven ride with snippets of real ideas, but never quite willing to take them out of this world. |
