Passengers

In the far-flung future, on a spaceship carrying 5,000 colonists to a distant planet, two passengers (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt) are rousted out of their hibernation pods with 90 years to go till they reach their destination—and their early rising may be a symptom of some catastrophic malfunction. Director Morten Tyldum and writer Jon Spaihts have come up with a real crackerjack science-fiction movie, gleamingly gorgeous to look at (kudos to Rodrigo Prieto’s cinematography and production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas), suspenseful, intelligent and emotionally engaging—a movie with a head, a heart and two of the most beautiful faces in movies. It’s a two-character movie, albeit with nice support from Michael Sheen as an android bartender and Laurence Fishburne as—but no, mustn’t spoil everything. J.L.