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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe Pod Generation is very much about our flesh, and the forces that are only too happy to take it away from us.
- 75IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandStrong performances by both Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor, plus compelling production design from Clem Price Thomas (the pods and the wider world around them are instantly credible) recommend the feature, even if some of Barthes’ biggest ideas (she also wrote the film’s script) sometimes feel under-explored by the time the film reaches its conclusion.
- 70Screen DailyAmber WilkinsonScreen DailyAmber WilkinsonThe Pod Generation blends its tech parody with more quirky observations of the anxieties of impending parenthood and, if Barthes doesn’t always sink the satire’s talons in quite as far as she might, the film’s sweet-natured hopefulness and charming central couple should see it win over distributors and audiences.
- 67The PlaylistJason BaileyThe PlaylistJason BaileyBarthes’ screenplay is clean; for the most part, it’s brainy but not didactic, and thoughtful but not dull.
- 61TheWrapSteve PondTheWrapSteve PondThere’s an austerity to the film, but also a sense that this interesting couple in this interesting environment is going over the same territory with only minor changes.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFor 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.
- 50ColliderRoss BonaimeColliderRoss BonaimeThe Pod Generation ends with a thud, leaving the audience to question what the purpose of this endeavor even was.
- 50SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSlashfilmChris EvangelistaWhat The Pod Generation lacks in cohesion it (mostly) makes up for in laughs.
- 40The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerNeither as scary nor as funny as its premise might be, The Pod Generation instead coasts along on a placid, self-satisfied wavelength.