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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 30 Mar 2022

As with most Linklater joints, it’s so sincere and so sweetly true that you can’t really fault it for not reinventing the wheel…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 30 Mar 2022

Youth is a great theme of Linklater’s, but presented without any great directional moralising or emotional narrative. Being young just is…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Mar 2022

An essentially plotless but engaging and enriching recollection of childhood steeped in warmth, grace, honesty, and crystalline specificity…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 28 Mar 2022

Apollo 10 ½ is so adept at making the mundane magical that it almost doesn’t need the conceit that gives the movie its title…

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By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Mar 2022

Apollo 10½ ultimately suggests that memory distorts and amplifies just as much as it preserves…

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By Jennie Punter (195) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 25 Mar 2022

Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood is definitely Linklater's most granular film, rich in the small details and moments of daily life that…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Mar 2022

The larger point of this movie is that our own pasts sometimes seem like a fantasy — a dream we half-remember — where what actually happened…

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By Trace Sauveur (69) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Mar 2022

It may feel somewhat slight when it’s all said and done, but Apollo is packed with Linklater’s unique voice and breezy attitude that makes…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 23 Mar 2022

Apollo 10 1/2 might have been utterly forgettable without the rotoscoped adding of computer-painted rose-colored glasses…

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By Aurora Amidon (74) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 22 Mar 2022

It’s a stylish meditation on childhood that isn’t afraid to indulge in all the sentimentality that goes along with that…

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By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Mar 2022

The film may be Linklater’s warmest and most nostalgic precisely because of its specifics…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence (296) on 16 Mar 2022

The result is sleepy and somewhat solipsistic, but that’s part of the charm of a Linklater joint, especially the personal ones…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 15 Mar 2022

By this point, the 1960s have been sufficiently chronicled and celebrated, but the specificity of Linklater’s portrait nevertheless has a…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 13 Mar 2022

Unlike the “memberberries” school of nostalgia that can reduce itself to “I had that lunch box…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Mar 2022

It’s clearly a labor of love, a unique reflection on an unforgettable summer, inviting us to share in a moment of communal spirit which now…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 13 Mar 2022

This semi-autobiographical sketch isn’t really a story at all so much as a sweetly effervescent string of Kodachrome memories from the filmmaker’s…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Mar 2022

Turns out, this movie isn’t so much about space as it is about time travel, or more specifically, taking Linklater and his followers back…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Mar 2022

The jankiness of this structure is a bit much, at least on first viewing, drifting into memoir material for so long that it the picture feeling…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 13 Mar 2022

Richard Linklater’s animated Apollo fantasy is scattered, but sweet…

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