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By Jluis_001 (2,242) on 01 Apr 2022

Nostalgia, pure simple and resonantly compelling…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 01 Apr 2022

The film’s litany of details about growing up in the Houston area in the ’60s isn’t enveloping — instead, in its drone of vintage sitcom…

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By Metacriticonur (388) on 01 Apr 2022

Bad [ bad ] adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36. not good in any manner or degree…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 31 Mar 2022

It’s warm, cosy and very Linklater: it definitely exudes more chill than urgency…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 31 Mar 2022

It's a gauzy indulgence in nostalgia that sweetly captures a very specific time and place, which should broadly speak to Linklater's contemporaries…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 31 Mar 2022

Apollo 10½ is a portrait of innocence untainted by any agenda other than the need to convey as honestly as possible what it felt like to be…

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By Rafael Motamayor (108) for Polygon (677) on 31 Mar 2022

Apollo 10 1/2 is a charming, visually striking blend of history and fantasy that captures the way children see and process historical events…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 31 Mar 2022

Apollo 10 1/2 unites the inner and outer life in a form of cultural autobiography, and it does so with a unique sense of cinematic style and form…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 31 Mar 2022

Apollo 10½ is more a modest memoir than a whiz-bang space epic…

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By Josh Spiegel (148) for Slashfilm (971) on 30 Mar 2022

This is a sweet, friendly, low-key affair that often feels less like a story and more like a home movie Linklater collected to share with his…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 30 Mar 2022

As in Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993), about the last day of school and first night of summer vacation in a Texas town in 1976, Apollo…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 30 Mar 2022

Apollo 10 1/2 starts off as a fantasy, a family comedy and a loosey-goosey flashback…

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By John Nugent (191) for Empire (3,446) on 30 Mar 2022

A dreamlike time capsule of a historic event, told from a kid’s perspective and rendered in beautiful animation — only Richard Linklater…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 30 Mar 2022

Stan’s trip to the moon may fade into the ether, but his ride down the highway with his brothers and sisters, all of them unsecured on the…

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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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