But before “Sputnik” settles into a run-and-gun routine that feels like business as usual, it’s a gripping and gross B-movie made all ... Once there, she gets the full creepy picture ...

If you’re spoilerphobic, wait for the movie to arrive later this month ... Though he had built a creature for The Passenger, Sputnik required a full redesign. No longer was this the sentimental ...

In the second half of the movie, Sputnik, broadly speaking ... If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material.

But “Sputnik” isn’t set in a declining Soviet Union just to break out spiffy retro designs; the crumbling totalitarian edifice is central to the movie’s theme. Soon enough, we are let in ...

However, there is so much to admire about “Sputnik,” with its immersive ... It’s clear Abramenko wants to serve a full-course meal of a movie, and in stretching the dynamic range of emotion ...

It’s merely a question of how well Sputnik whips all of this well-worn ... may satisfy a quick summer-movie fix. If this sounds like faint praise, it is. You’ve seen this before.

Our slippery E.T. may very well be the star of the show in “Sputnik.” But here the most damning horrors already call Earth home, and this throwback genre movie’s most inventive element ...

While much of the same history is covered more concisely in “Sputnik Declassified” (a recent episode of “Nova,” viewable online at www.pbs.org), Hoffman takes full advantage of new ...