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 Some direct-to-streaming offerings inspire viewers to lament the fate of the film, wishing it had a proper theatrical release, to be seen the way movies are supposed to be seen, and by the widest possible audience. . “Crater” isn't one of those, but neither is this Disney+ original mere dross created by an algorithm. Kyle Patrick Alvarez's Lunar Adventure follows five young friends who hijack a rover to visit an enigmatic crater for one last hurrah before one of them leaves the moon forever. It's science fiction informed by a Gen-Z sensibility, with a particular focus on those Zoomers who can't imagine a bright future on the planet they actually inhabit — an ever-expanding demographic, one imagines. The teenagers of 2257 dress and speak remarkably like those of today, perhaps because those who grew up on the nameless lunar colony have a quality of not being stuck in time, as a result of their home environment having no culture of its own. Chief among them is the recent...