A jumbled mess that never really presents a cohesive narrative.

| Original Score: D | May 10, 2024

It's an interesting, compelling idea, but it's a little bit low-key.

| Oct 1, 2021

The handful of twists, a little world context and the unique visual style make for an intriguing watch, it's just a shame that the film is a little too much of a slow burn.

| Aug 17, 2019

Even if the manner in which it unfolds is, in the end, fairly pedestrian, the message it strives to make definitely is not.

| Feb 15, 2019

It's still watchable enough, thanks to an unsettlingly ambiguous performance by Margaret Qualley...and a spot of clanging contemporary relevance.

| Feb 7, 2019

Bleak sci-fi dystopian tale has language, dark themes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2019

A forced romance, lackluster execution, and a tendency to pander to its audience makes IO come up far shorter than it otherwise could've been.

| Feb 5, 2019

A film that tries to come off deeper than it actually is.

| Jan 29, 2019

The slick cinematography can't prevent the film from buckling under the weight of its dull script, laborious pacing and forgettable characters.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 29, 2019

Helpert lingers on uninteresting details with glacial pacing, ending up with something best suited for off-Broadway than screens of all sizes.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 24, 2019

A film more interested in symbols of human resilience than in the flesh-and-blood passions that animate it.

| Jan 24, 2019

IO's clichéd reaches for emotional resonance continue throughout the film, landing each time with a hollow thud that left me begging for a toxic storm to wipe the characters and their broody monologues off-screen.

| Jan 23, 2019

This isn't enough to raise the stakes, and instead, Io resorts to a forced relationship and secrets each character hides for no reason other than to force a conflict.

| Jan 23, 2019

While it's a bit lacking in terms of earned emotional impact - soul, if you will - it's certainly a better-than-decent way to kill 90 minutes or so.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 22, 2019

Despite some lofty ideas and two talented lead actors, IO is more of the same: uninspired storytelling that feels designed to feed the algorithm more than it nourishes your brain.

| Jan 22, 2019

A disappointingly average effort from Netflix, IO pretty much ends up being...just OK.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jan 21, 2019

Io is that rare science fiction film that asks us to look beyond aliens, spaceships, and technology, to ask what of the future for humans as individuals and community in how we connect and how we live beyond mere survival.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2019

To stand out in the noise, a film must have a unique plot, feel eerily plausible, and reveal a profound truth about human nature. Unfortunately, IO doesn't accomplish any of that.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 21, 2019

IO is just not very riveting, character or plot-wise. And that's saying something when the fate of the planet, the greatest human drama of all, hangs in the balance.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 20, 2019

It's never fun to dunk on low-key sci-fi this well made, but ultimately the ponderous, overwrought IO is just a bit of a bore.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 20, 2019