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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure

2022

Richard Linklater

Animation, Zachary Levi, Jack Black, Glen Powell ...

6.8

2,890

Animation. Adventure. Drama. Comedy This family coming-of-age drama will take you back to 1969 focusing on the moon landing from two perspectives, the astronauts and a kid watching from afar.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A film that blends quirky imagination with rose-colored nostalgia (...) is a lovingly crafted remembrance with a flavorful dash of fantasy."	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"[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."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	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'"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A uniquely fascinating account of living through the moment when those who came before witnessed that 'giant leap for mankind'"	POS
United States	Jason Bailey The Playlist	"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"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"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)"	POS
United States	Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"It rarely fails to be entertaining, even if its chronicle of life in the late ’60s ends up meandering more than necessary."	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The laidback warmth of this animation offers modest rewards, reflecting the optimism of an age that now feels far out of reach."	POS
United States	Abby Olcese rogerebert.com	"Linklater sets up a delightful story, then drops it for most of the run time in favor of an illustrated monologue about the joys of growing up during the space race"	NEU
United States	John Fink The Film Stage	"A warm, wise, and nostalgic look at growing up in the space age (...) Linklater has mastered the ability to empathize with kids that are just starting to understand the world around them"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Deadline	"Visually and dramatically, he maintains a light touch but, at the same time, is in formidable control (...) The result of the hard and meticulous work is one of the writer-director’s best and most personal films"	POS
United States	Trace Sauveur Austin Chronicle	"This is all conveyed through beautifully and uniquely drawn and rendered rotoscope animation (...) [It] is packed with Linklater's unique voice and breezy attitude that makes you feel right at home with him"	POS
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"A dreamlike time capsule of a historic event, told from a kid's perspective and rendered in beautiful animation —only Richard Linklater could have made this film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"Charming (...) The larger point of this movie is that our own pasts sometimes seem like a fantasy where what actually happened and what we merely imagined both now seem equally impossible"	POS
United States	Jordan Hoffman AV Club	"Engaging and enriching recollection of childhood steeped in warmth, grace, honesty, and crystalline specificity"	POS
United States	Aurora Amidon Paste Magazine	"It's a stylish meditation on childhood that isn't afraid to indulge in all the sentimentality that goes along with that (...) Linklater is reminding us exactly why childhood is a uniquely special thing"	POS
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"If [it] is an affectionate nostalgia-fest, it's also a sneakily perverse reflection on the limitations of human remembrance, suggesting that memory distorts and amplifies just as much as it preserves (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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