Adam Sandler (here in his welcome serious actor mode), is a Czech astronaut, Jakub, on an (unlikely) solo space mission to investigate a strange cloud at the edge of Jupiter, who makes first contact with a sentient 'space spider' (voiced by a softly-spoken Paul Dano) that appears in his capsule. As is usual with his dramatic performances, Sandler is strong, although the role - like the film as a whole - is rather one-note. Max Richter's music score is mesmerising, the gimmick of instantaneous quantum communication with Earth is useful with his crumbling marriage and impending fatherhood in play, and the lived-in aesthetic of the space capsule works well. Slow, gentle and contemplative, the bulk of the film is taken up with the interplay between astronaut and alien, which is interesting but hardly made compelling in its relentless treatise on loneliness.
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