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Sandy Cohen, Associated Press: With Damon's charm center stage, Scott has crafted an exciting, hopeful story about humanity at its best: The brightest minds working together for a common goal that bridges international borders and forges a feeling of unity. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: Damon is terrific. The movie lives and breathes on his performance, and he comes through in every scene. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The best thing that either Matt Damon and director Ridley Scott have done in years. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The Martian is a science fiction popcorn movie that is destined to be a genuine crowd pleaser. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: "The Martian" should do far more than just make Fox a ton of money; it could conceivably rekindle interest in the space program and inspire a new generation of future astronauts. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: At its heart, The Martian is an unapologetically stirring celebration of our ability, as a species, to solve even the most daunting problems via rational thought, step by step by step. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Damon is terrific. But this is by no means a one-man show. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie's a valentine to creative collaboration as well as an example of it. It's enough to make you almost grateful. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: 3-D conveys the frightening depth of space, but the suspense machinery crowds out all but the most banal philosophizing. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Those who prefer their science fiction more dour, and dire, may resist the film's fuzzy humanist impulse. I found it refreshing and sincere. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The Martian plays to both Scott's strengths and weaknesses. By relegating Mark's predicament to a purely survivalist scenario, he keeps things humming along without ever widening the horizon. But there was an obligation to widen the horizon. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: Turns out getting stranded on Mars can lead to a whole lot of fun. Read more
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: This marks a solid return to form for Scott, whose last few films ( Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Counselor and Prometheus) have veered from the leaden to the unwatchable. Scott may have found himself by getting lost in space. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Scott's sci-fi adventure is the kind of film you leave the theater itching to tell your friends to see. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The Martian is fueled by charm, curiosity and the scientific method. It plays like a modernized Kennedy-age fantasy of discovery, space and can-do initiative. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Damon provides comfortable company during the long stretches when he's onscreen alone, and the actor's physicality makes Mark's capability entirely credible. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Damon is as likable an American actor as we have and ideally cast to convey the pleasing self-confidence and intrepid sense of humor that characterized Watney in the book. Read more
Tony Hicks, San Jose Mercury News: Watney could be the perfect character for Damon, who easily slides into the persona of a man who's relentless, optimistic, intelligent, sarcastic, self-effacing, and inspirational. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The Martian does look like it was shot on Mars, even though the film's tone is suspiciously light and cheerful for Scott, who tends to thrive on a chillier, more dour habitat. But who can bemoan this great filmmaker a crowd-pleaser? Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: You'll root for Damon as a resourceful science whiz, but the movie's total absence of plot results in a narrative vacuum. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Damon has never seemed more at home than he does here, millions of miles adrift. Would any other actor have shouldered the weight of the role with such diligent grace? Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There is a lot here to delight audiences of many kinds. Read more
Chris Klimek, NPR: Even adjusting for flattery, it's an easy film to love - one so suspenseful and funny and just richly, consistently good you might get mad at it falling a few astronomical units short of great. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: What makes this epic personal is Mr. Scott's filmmaking, in which every soaring aerial shot of the red planet is answered by the intimate landscape of a face. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Martian is stirring and powerful, boasting a commanding performance from Damon. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is science fiction for sophisticated audiences and, as such, a fulfilling and satisfying experience. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Ridley Scott rediscovers his light touch in a space epic that's fun to geek out at. Damon - a fine actor with the magnetism you only find in a true movie star - keeps you glued. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A tremendously exciting popcorn spectacle, and also a portrait of extraplanetary survival convincing enough that it had my tech-obsessed 11-year-old companion on his feet cheering on several occasions. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: It's pretty sunny and often funny, a space oddity for a director not known for pictures with a sense of humor. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: By the finish, the science discussions have become impenetrable, the musical sequences are coming fast and furious, and every bit of action that should take five minutes takes 15. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: The animating humanism of Scott's film is irreducible. It's a wry tribute to the qualities that got our species into space in the first place: our resourcefulness, our curiosity and our outsized, ridiculous, beautiful brains. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's a big-hearted mash note to science nerds, optimism, grit and guts. With wonderful dramatic pacing, acting, subject matter, Abba soundtrack anthems and "Lord of the Rings" jokes, "The Martian" is a clever feel-good movie on an epic scale. Read more
Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Don't let seeing the movie stop you from reading the book. Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: The film is a profound testament to the rare-and underrated-virtue of simply not screwing anything up. Read more
Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail: Hell, I'm scared of simply sleeping outdoors and I walked out of the movie with just the tiniest daydream of strapping myself into a rocket and shooting for the stars (ideally with Matt Damon as my co-pilot). Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's one of the year's best movies and widescreen 3D experiences, a crackerjack adventure that celebrates human ingenuity over mechanical contrivance. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Not only does the film stress the importance of using math and physics to solve problems, but it also makes a plot based on scientific inquiry as exciting and unpredictable as the kind that involves punching everyone and then blowing everything up. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Bringing optimism, nerd-itude and a touch of crazy to his character's solo ordeal -- at one point, scraggly Watney calls himself a "space pirate" -- Damon is the key to the movie's exuberance. Read more
Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun: Like Alfonso Cuaron's wonderful close-space thriller Gravity, Scott's The Martian is all the more interesting because it is linked with possibilities and even probabilities. Read more
Brian Truitt, USA Today: Damon totally sells what is arguably his most likable role in years with a balance of charming personality and compelling need to cheer hard for this guy. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: As elaborate and expensive-looking as The Martian is, it's almost totally lacking in poetry. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Cynical as I am about how monster-budget blockbusters have come to dominate the studio mind-set, I can't imagine anyone not liking this one. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The problem-solving valorized in "The Martian" provides a simultaneously stirring and spirited example of how cool science can be. As NASA-Hollywood plots go, this one is worth lapping up like all the water on Mars. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: What's so stirring about the film is that, before and after everything else, it truly is about being human. Read more