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starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstar Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
starstar Tom Sime - Dallas Morning News
starstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
star MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
star Jay Carr - Boston Globe
star Desson Howe - Washington Post
star Stephen Holden - NY Times

[E]mbodies the kind of nuts-and-bolts sci-fi championed by John W. Campbell Jr. in his Astounding magazine

- Roger Ebert

[A] leaden, skimpily plotted space-age Outward Bound adventure with vague allegorical aspirations that remain entirely unrealized

- Stephen Holden

Red Planet

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It's 2050, the Earth is dying from pollution, and a motley crew of astronauts is sent to Mars in order to find out why attempts to create an oxygen-based atmosphere on the red planet have failed. With Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Carrie-Anne Moss, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Baker and Terence Stamp. Director: Antony Hoffman (2000, PG-13)

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