A new Netflix movie with almost perfect reviews is going under everyone's radar
Netflix releases an absolute mountain of content every day – so much so that it's hard to keep up. On April Fool's Day 2022, the streaming service is pushing the newly released The Bubble into everyone's feeds, yet there's another, much better-reviewed movie that deserves your attention.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is the latest collaborative effort from the Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater and actor Jack Black. The pair have worked together on numerous occasions, perhaps most famously on School of Rock, and their new movie is an equally joyful release, telling the story of a fourth-grader, Stanley, who's sent to space after a pair of NASA scientists – played by Zachary Levi and Glen Powell – realize that they have accidentally built modules that are too small for an adult.
Though about a youngster, Apollo 10½ is very much set in the past, the fictional events taking place in 1969, the year the very real Apollo 11 first took humans to the moon. Plus, the non-fantastical elements are deeply rooted in Linklater's own past, with the film acting as partly autobiographical. Meanwhile, Black plays an older version of Stanley. The story's not the only notable thing about Apollo 10½ – while the movie was shot in live-action, the whole thing is animated, the actors rotoscoped over, leading to some fantastically inventive sequences.
Apollo 10½ is Linklater's best-reviewed movie since Boyhood, which just happens to be one of the best-reviewed movies of all time, according to Rotten Tomatoes. "Richard Linklater is looking back from outer space at childhood’s blue remembered hills in this intensely enjoyable and sweet family movie for Netflix," writes The Guardian. "This is a film of enormous charm; it’s such a
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