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Remmy and her parents, refugees from Earth, have found peace on the Martian outskirts until strangers appear in the hills beyond their farm. Told as a triptych, the film follows Remmy as she struggles to survive in an uneasy landscape.
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TheWrap
Unlike many previous films and TV shows that ponder the possibility of life on Mars, “Settlers” is thoughtful and nuanced, with Rockefeller posing extremely difficult (and resonant) questions about entitlement and even the future of human existence.
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With Settlers, Rockefeller and his crew have created a striking little treatise on our misguided ambitions.
70
n the ranks of cinematic journeys to Mars, Settlers ranks among the less fancifully and lavishly invented, yet it’s all the more effective for its earthly restraint: You can change the planet, Rockefeller suggests, but humanity stays pretty much the same.
63
With Settlers, the filmmaker takes us on a journey as much internal as extra-terrestrial.
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Slant Magazine
Settlers allows for weighty themes to play out inside a cramped domestic setting, wary of easy answers or moral platitudes.
