The material they’re [Clarke and Ejiofor] given is often slim and simple, but they lean into it with everything they can offer, and find the relatability in characters who feel more like symbols than like people.

| Sep 13, 2023

The movie’s core is as inert as an uncharged iPhone, taking most of the sting out of its cautionary satire.

| Aug 14, 2023

An opaque expression of an overly simple thesis.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 11, 2023

In Sophie Barthes' hands, a story of a couple having a pod baby becomes a clever and poignant comedy about the quirks of technology, privilege, and the inhumanity of having it all.

| Aug 11, 2023

A wickedly funny and fun, if disconcerting, film that arrives right on time for our age of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence doomerism.

| Aug 10, 2023

After Yang did this theme a tad better. But The Pod Generation scores its own points.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 10, 2023

... A cautionary tale of choosing science over nature, albeit one that’s played more for laughs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2023

The Pod Generation foregrounds Rachel and Alvy’s relationship, exploring how technologies change our most intimate connections and raising questions from a world not so unlike our own.

| Feb 2, 2023

A warm-bath optimism that swerves into silliness in the final act.

| Original Score: B | Feb 1, 2023

Neither as scary nor as funny as its premise might be, The Pod Generation instead coasts along on a placid, self-satisfied wavelength.

| Jan 24, 2023

A movie with fascinating ideas but too little POV to drive them home in an interesting way.

| Jan 22, 2023

For all the movie’s quite credible conjecture about technology rendering nature obsolete and procreation becoming the privilege of the wealthy, The Pod Generation never fully hatches.

| Jan 21, 2023

Strong performances by both Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor, plus compelling production design from Clem Price Thomas recommend the feature, even if some of Barthes’ biggest ideas sometimes feel under-explored by the time the film reaches its conclusion.

| Original Score: B | Jan 20, 2023

A movie needs more than a smart idea and an impressively visualized concept of the future to run smoothly. Two thirds of the way through, “The Pod Generation”‘s battery is already at 1%.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 20, 2023

Barthes’ screenplay is clean; for the most part, it’s brainy but not didactic, and thoughtful but not dull.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 20, 2023

The cinematography by Andrij Parekh aided by Clement Price-Thomas vibrant set design created an innovative future look that isn't far out of the realm possibility--but that's it.

| Jan 20, 2023

One of the many things “The Pod Generation” taps into is how the combined forces of technology and corporate power now seem almost designed to divide people off from each other.

| Jan 20, 2023