Richard Dreyfuss certainly proves that at the age of 72, he still has “The Right Stuff” with an out of this world performance that will move you to tears. A heart-warming tale of never given up on your dreams.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2022

A sweet story of an old man struggling with the feeling of outliving his own usefulness.

| Feb 17, 2021

Makes some obvious choices that prevent it from fully taking flight - a dance sequence at the nursing home is particularly awful - but has enough to say about aging and following your dreams to earn it a look for family audiences.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

For a film about the joy and value of expanding your horizons, whatever your age, its outlook is irksomely blinkered.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2020

Astronaut is a reflective and heartwarming tale of ageing that is let down simply by not settling comfortably on the story it wants to be.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Jul 28, 2020

The film doesn't handle that subject matter quite as deftly as we might wish, but it does it well enough to be worth your time.

| Jul 23, 2020

Richard Dreyfuss pottering around an old people's home proves to be just what the doctor ordered.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 11, 2020

A delightful paean to age and experience despite its ungainly mix of the realistic and the implausible. Dreyfuss is compelling as a retired expert dismissed as old bones.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2020

Dreyfuss remains as fine-tuned and charming an actor as he did the first time he stared longingly up at the heavens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2020

Ultimately, I believed in this character, whose dreams were so obviously unfulfillable...I thought that worked rather well.

| May 4, 2020

A sweet story about daring to dream, whatever your age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2020

All of this would be promising territory were Astronaut an offbeat senior-versus-the-world comedy directed by, say, Alexander Payne.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 26, 2020

[A] frustratingly corny and vaguely patronising drama about ageing and never giving up on your dreams.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 25, 2020

Dreyfuss pulls it back from the brink but more oomph is sorely needed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2020

Sitting somewhere between The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and something slightly more earnest, this charming tale of triumph over adversity does its best with some admittedly limited resources.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2020

A likable performance by Richard Dreyfuss livens up this easygoing drama about second chances and late-life adventure from actor-turned-director Shelagh McLeod.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2020

McLeod can be poetic, but what is most prominent is Angus' level-headed intelligence, conveyed in a whip-smart performance by Dreyfuss.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2020

While Astronaut charts an overfamiliar route, this unaffected inter-generational relationship feels unexpectedly fresh.

| Apr 21, 2020

A typically charismatic central performance from Richard Dreyfuss adds zest to a modest, sweet-natured family film about old age and responsible civil engineering.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2020

Astronaut is more interested in the humanity of its elderly characters than it is in serving the conventions of a genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2020