Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure

"A film that blends quirky imagination with rose-colored nostalgia (...) is a lovingly crafted remembrance with a flavorful dash of fantasy." 

"[A] delightfully evocative exercise in nostalgia (...) a reverie of childhood before Watergate, when kids drank Tang, adults smoked and the future spelled opportunity instead of eventual apocalypse." 

Linklater vividly depicts the 1960s not as they were, but as they still are in his mind (...) It’s an approach that allows this featherlight time capsule to feel like it’s floating in space without capitulating to the myopia of a 'good old days'" 

"A uniquely fascinating account of living through the moment when those who came before witnessed that 'giant leap for mankind'" 

"Linklater interweaves Stanley’s memories of his imagined mission with archival coverage of the real one. It’s a clever and involving way to reframe an oft-told story" 

"Youth is a great theme of Linklater's, but presented without any great directional moralising or emotional narrative. Being young just is. This is a film of enormous charm (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"It rarely fails to be entertaining, even if its chronicle of life in the late ’60s ends up meandering more than necessary."