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Apollo 11

2019

Todd Miller

Documentary

7.4

1,989

Documentary NASA’s vaults open for the first time to spill this exquisite, never-before seen audio and 70 mm film footage of the Apollo 11 mission. The meandering cameras in Cape Canaveral capture a dreamy-eyed portrait of America as it stepped into the future, and from inside the Apollo 11 spacecraft, the amazingly jocular conversation of the astronauts punctuates each stage of the mission with lightness and charm. Yet the crowds watching the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A cool, meticulous, at times enthralling documentary that captures the Apollo 11 flight in its entirety through raw footage drawn from the NASA vaults"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Immersive and experiential, rather than informative (...) Much of the footage in 'Apollo 11' is, by virtue of both access and proper preservation, utterly breathtaking"	POS
United Kingdom	Anthony Kaufman Screendaily	"This meticulously conceived documentary is both a definitive account of the voyage as well as a creative, cinematic you-are-there unfolding of the events that transpired."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"These images so lucidly relate the ambition of Apollo 11 and the collaboration it required that everything else seems petty in comparison"	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"You know how it comes out, but it’s still a hell of a ride (...) Fully captivating"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Although we know how the mission turns out, the movie generates and maintains suspense. And it rekindles a crazy sense of wonder at, among other things, what one can do practically with trigonometry."	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"A masterpiece (...) It takes you right up past the stratosphere alongside these souls. Then it brings everything back down to Earth with equal agility and grace (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"An exceptional, vibrant restoration of never-before-seen footage results in one of the most astounding films about space ever made (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"It’s about how it feels to be in space and on the ground as history is made. Stunning, stirring stuff (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ed Power Telegraph	"It has just one goal: to convey the enormous technical challenges overcome by the successful Moon landing. Its mission is thrillingly, and movingly, accomplished (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"Many myths and crackpot conspiracy theories have agglomerated around the Apollo 11 mission over the years, and this lean and focused commemorative documentary quietly debunks all that nonsense (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"An energetic thrillride from liftoff to splashdown (...) This eye-wateringly beautiful film feels like a deep breath nervously exhaled (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Australia	Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald	"It’s a film that makes history seem freshly minted - a unique work of restoration (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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