Loneliness is perhaps not the most cinematic of emotions. But there’s undeniable big-screen magic at work in Johan Renck’s (Chernobyl) film, which casts Adam Sandler as "The loneliest man who has ever lived." That’s no wild claim: Sandler plays astronaut Jakub who, nine months into a mission to investigate a mysterious cloud by Jupiter, is the furthest from human contact that anyone has ever been.
Jakub is eager to patch things up with his pregnant wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan) back on Earth. But this gorgeous existential sci-fi has more than space travel and despair on its mind. Before long, our hero finds himself forging a connection with a giant extraterrestrial spider with an abundance of emotional intelligence and a (rather creepy) little human mouth, from which springs the voice of Paul Dano.
