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Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion.

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Glenn Kenny New York Times Feb 4
Lee’s gospel of the possible is ultimately a winning one. Go to Full Review
Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter 03/18/2025
It’s a thesis that’s hard to sensationalize and neither Stone nor Lee try to. Starman just wants you to briefly get caught up in considering it. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman Variety 03/14/2025
A documentary about space exploration that puts you in touch with your inner wide-eyed child. It’s the intergalactic meditation as blissed-out mind-bender. Go to Full Review
Christopher Campbell Nonfics (Substack) Feb 11
Starman loses some of its focus in the end by touching on more topics, but it’s otherwise a fantastic profile of Lee and should delight anyone interested in the cosmos and our place in it. Go to Full Review
John Stark Mac the Movie Guy Feb 6
81/100
Starman doesn’t perhaps go quite where no man has gone before, but it does tackle the theory of life on other planets with some astute theorizing. Go to Full Review
Alex Billington FirstShowing.net Oct 20
8/10
I would've happily listened to Gentry Lee go even deeper into theories, ideas, differently possibilities, stories about Sagan or NASA... Go to Full Review
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prawnda S @RT72497680 Jun 23 hey, look it's the obvious bot account "Stephen C" in the audience reviews for the millionth time giving a 5 star rating with some random stat about the film instead of a review. this time it's really funny at least, because the bot accidentally listed the dismally low worldwide gross of this project (under 25k, lol). anyways, this film is unbearably cringey, i don't think that gentry or robert have anything to say whatsoever that has not already been said better in hundreds of other films. the cgi is also really dated, im not sure if they used ai imagery for parts because it just looked awful. maybe they tricked some museum into playing this for visitors, but there is no way anyone sought this film out and only a very niche audience of elderly people are likely to enjoy it. it's notable that the other 5 star review here has only a single review on their account, and it's for this film. did robert stone's wife make a sock profile just for this? See more Mary R. @Morgan1230 Apr 6 Excellent documentary. Thought provoking and hopeful. Enjoyed it so much, I purchased a copy. See more Stephen C @bob25009 Feb 6 The worldwide gross is $24,900.00. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion.
Director
Robert Stone
Producer
Keith Haviland, Ray Rothrock, Robert Stone
Screenwriter
Robert Stone
Distributor
Obscured Releasing
Production Co
Robert Stone Productions
Genre
Documentary, Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 6, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 6, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA)
$24.9K
Runtime
1h 25m