The film engulfs itself in what feels like a very real, very fondly remembered childhood in 1960s Texas.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 5, 2024

[“Apollo 10½”] is a poetic time capsule and a melancholy tribute to an age of unbridled imagination.

| Oct 31, 2023

Apollo 10½ has vivid and colourful images of the suburbs and sometimes provides montages and photographs of the family.

| Sep 4, 2023

Linklater’s latest venture into animation, “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood,” is probably his most personal story yet. However, it contains wearisome and bland narration as well as a sense of detachment.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 29, 2023

This film plays like one big fantasy fever dream. Nothing seems real despite the amount of details to ground it into reality.

| Jul 26, 2023

The warm humor of Apollo 10 ½ springs organically from the absurdities of the time.

| Jul 26, 2023

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood may be Linklater’s most personal story yet, defined by the director’s real-life upbringing just a short distance away from all of the action at Johnson Space Center.

| Jul 25, 2023

Dreams, reality, animation, historical video, here, it all blends together. Did Stanley see the first steps on the moon? Did he sleep through this historic moment? Did he step onto the moon himself? All of this seems real -- quite a trick.

| Original Score: B | Jan 28, 2023

Linklater shows how movies mirror the mind. We process and remember reality—whether our own lives or distant images of men on the moon—through imperfect filters of memory and imagination.

| Jan 27, 2023

Landing on the moon was a communal experience and APOLLO 10 1/2 succeeds when dealing with that phenomenon. The mileage of the rest's time capsule categorization varies.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 30, 2022

Not so much a space adventure as a pleasant reminder of the essence of youth and the comfort of memory.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 28, 2022

Apollo 10 ½ is a thoughtful, often wryly humorous reminiscence about what it was like to be a child growing up in a world that seemed at once filled with limitless possibilities for the future and crippling anxieties laced with existential dread.

| Oct 10, 2022

The memory exercise of Apollo 10 1/2: a space childhood reminds us that the wonder is in what is lived, but perhaps even more in how it is lived and… in how it is remembered. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 75/100 | Sep 12, 2022

It’s a lovely film, really, full of good tunes and hope and excitement and the awe of the dream-dappled night sky.

| Original Score: A | Aug 24, 2022

Leave it to Richard Linklater to make a warm, inviting film about how all of our lives peaked when we were 10 and that there literally is no going back on that except through creating and engaging with art that transports us...

| Jul 6, 2022

The allure for most won’t be the moon, it will be the launching of a societal revolution that made everything seem possible, from casting Jell-O in a fruit-filled mold to racial equality.

| Original Score: A | Jun 29, 2022

Combining a legitimate dramatic structure with enchanting visual results, Apollo 10 1/2 is an immersive fantasy stripped of stiffness, where one finds comfort, loveliness, and sweet moments of grace.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2022

Despite being lovely and amusing, Apollo 10½ can feel somewhat slight, like an extended short, since a huge portion of the film is devoted to describing the past or even merely listing it.

| Original Score: B | Jun 14, 2022

The memory. The lie. The truth that lives in the memory, and the truth painted with fantasy, sort of like an IOU from a lie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 8, 2022

Nostalgia served through tv shows, songs, toys, movies, records, brands, and the rest of exuberant memorabilia that make up a Boomer's identity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 8, 2022