Signal One

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Signal One

Jun 2026

1h 27m

Sci-Fi

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A brilliant scientist meets the inventor of a high-tech machine that can communicate with extraterrestrial life. But contact comes with consequences that soon threaten the very survival of the human race.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

2d

3/4

It is a fantasy, but it’s more confrontational than escapist. It doesn’t want us to turn our brains off. It wants us to think.

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Charles Johnston

Spectrum Culture

1h

A trippy, eccentric sci-fi film, more thought-provoking than entertaining, that eschews easy tropes to deliver upon its urgent message as clearly as possible.

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Robert Kojder

Flickering Myth

8h

3/5

Signal One is a sci-fi flick of modest ambitions, aware of its scope and what it can and can’t pull off

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Mark Dujsik

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3d

3/4

It's a smart film that ... is also wise enough not to provide concrete answers.

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

5d

C

"Signal One" hopes to put on a show of intellectuals putting a puzzle of possibility together, but Sobol doesn’t provide a cinematic experience, going limp with an overly talky movie.

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Christie Cronan

Common Sense Media

5d

3/5

A thoughtful but cautionary vision of the consequences of curiosity and discovery, this sci-fi drama explores humanity's obsession with connecting with the universe.

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Roberto G

@RobertoGatti72 11h

The acting is so bad that it hurts.

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Jen W

@RT51291255 20h

You might want to look up what a quantum computer looks like and what quantum entanglement means. Whip out the ol' ai chatbot perhaps to explain things that don't make clear sense. Even with my rudimentary understanding, it was a bit vague on some parts of the "action". It's a bit cerebral.

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Daniel R

@RT98315570 2d

It was great. I thought realistic and interesting how they have done a good job showing something so alien. Watch it!

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Stephen C

@bob25009 2d

Successful science fiction movie.

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Synopsis

A brilliant scientist meets the inventor of a high-tech machine that can communicate with extraterrestrial life. But contact comes with consequences that soon threaten the very survival of the human race.

Director: Jonathan Sobol
Producer: Doug Murray, William G. Santor, Nicholas Tabarrok
Screenwriter: Jonathan Sobol
Distributor: Radial Entertainment
Production Co: Darius Films, Productivity Media
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 5, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 5, 2026
Runtime: 1h 27m