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By Bradley Steinbacher (3) for Film.com (1,892) on 01 Jan 2000

Apollo 13 avoids becoming propaganda, or a masturbatory industrial film for NASA, by focusing on the story's human element…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 01 Jan 2000

The depiction of the rocket launch remains one of the most exhilarating sequences ever captured on film; so realistic that NASA wondered where…

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By James O'ehley (345) for Sci-Fi Movie Page (492) on 01 Jan 2000

For reliving this long forgotten go-and-get-it gung-ho mentality and excellent reconstruction of the sense of wonder that surrounded those…

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By Chris Hicks (618) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 01 Jan 2000

A true story filled with suspense and human drama…

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By Christopher Null (908) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 01 Jan 2000

Apollo 13 gets my blanket recommendation…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

This film is a paean to the power of perseverance to solve even the most impossible problems. This one is well worth braving the crowds to see…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Dec 1998

This meticulous but ultimately rather pedestrian drama gradually won me over as a minor if watchable example of the victory through defeat…

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By Elvis Mitchell (489) for The New York Times (9,847) on 10 Feb 1997

With no frills and no commentary, Howard and company have made the kind of absorbing thriller we have in mind when we wistfully sigh, They…

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By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Aug 1996

I just wish that Apollo 13 worked better as a movie, and that Howard's threshold for corn, mush and twinkly sentiment weren't so darn wide…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 01 Jul 1996

Perhaps the most impressive feat of this film is sustaining white-knuckle tension even though the chain of events is well-known…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Feb 1996

Self-conscious about its heroism with portrayals that lean toward the glib and the professionally uplifting, the film milks our sympathies…

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By Terrence Rafferty (56) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 17 Oct 1995

The film, despite its raggedness, is stirring…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 29 Jun 1995

A solid, if somewhat heavy-handed, account of the near-disaster that befell NASA's 1970 mission to the moon, done up by Howard with a steady,…

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