Gravity Reviews

The gut-wrenching, immersive elements are almost above reproach, but ultimately it's all effect and little affect.

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As Cuarón spells out in his intro: "Life in space is impossible". So is forming any emotional attachment to Gravity.

Full Review | Original Score: C

... a Worst-Space Scenario, in which everything that can go wrong does. It's basically 'Sandra Bullock and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Space Walk.'

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Bullock and Clooney are good at playing themselves, but it felt like they "phoned" it in making the film feel shallow. Some nice visuals, but nothing that we haven't seen in far better Space films.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Watching Gravity often feels like watching an especially long prep reel for Star Tours, without ever being allowed to board the ride.

Full Review | Original Score: b-

If the measure of a film's true greatness is how deeply it immerses you into a world we're unlikely to experience in reality, then Gravity is purely, simply one of the best movies ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

And it must be said upfront: This experience needs to be taken in on the biggest, IMAX-iest screen possible

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Cuaron thrusts us into the heavens for an adventure so lifelike you can almost reach out and touch the stars. And who wouldn't want to reach out and touch George Clooney and Sandra Bullock?

Full Review | Original Score: A

Gravity is very much an action adventure film, one very occasionally more meditative than most, but it's unashamed in its desire to thrill you.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Cuaron has broken extraordinary ground here, creating a film-going immersion in outer space that, at least for those of us who've gotten no closer than an airplane allows, feels unfailingly right.

Full Review | Original Score: *****

Cuaron is as eager to invoke primal, instinctual fear as he is to indulge lyrical, philosophical reflection.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

This is a movie as much about death as it is about survival.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

...Cuaron takes elements that remove the soul from most films and uses them to his advantage. Gravity opens up the possibilities of cinema. (Video review)

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Gravity, for all its many accomplishments, is at its core a wondrous narrative, beautifully executed with an eye for innovation that matches its emotional and intellectual content.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

Cuaron and his team have crafted a masterpiece that is so much more than it seems. All the pieces come together to form one of the most unforgettable movie-going experiences of recent memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

As of right now, there's just nothing else like it. And that is a rare treat at the movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Yes, director Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is laden with ingenious special effects, but they make for a balletic visual experience that engulfs and transports the audience in a way that very few movies ever have.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Not since Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey has a mainstream film featured space exploration in such an evocative, heady, and realistic manner.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

An exhilarating and borderline profound masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

Gravity... may actually be that rarest of beasts: An actual game-changer.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10