Most sci-fi involves concepts that don't seem feasible, and are explained to varying degrees of satisfaction throughout a story. It seems silly to declare a movie stupid based on its blurb, before you watch and see the context and what kinds of explanations might be provided.
That's actually one of the reasons I watch sci-fi. I like to see how creatively filmmakers might tie fictional concepts into real science.
It's all relative though. I mean, lots of stuff in Star Trek made no sense. "Inertial dampers," for example, are required in order to make half the stuff in that show remotely plausible -- but they're pure fantasy, and the show never even attempts to explain how they work. We're just expected to take it on faith that they've got a device that lets a starship accelerate to FTL speeds without turning all its occupants into soup. I still wouldn't call Star Trek stupid.
In this case, while many things aren't explained explicitly (it's often a more cryptic/haunting exploration of human isolation), one of the characters in the movie does bring up your second point, about the expanding universe. The propulsion issue, ditto, but various scenes suggest their ship utilizes a black hole drive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship.
...but good for you. Fight the power. To me this seems more like a case of rejecting things outright that seem a little too different than what you're used to from the genre, but what do I know.
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