This is virtuoso film-making on every level.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 20, 2023

Their [Sandra Bullock and George Clooney] fight for survival against the odds is so brilliantly realised that you forgive the implausible plot.

| Jul 20, 2023

With its themes of spirituality, religion, birth, rebirth and hope, Gravity is a film that will move audiences in different ways. That's the beauty of it; it transcends genres, generations and time, a modern classic.

| Original Score: A | Sep 6, 2017

A survival drama set almost entirely in the unfathomable abyss of outer space, Gravity is something now quite rare -- a truly popular big-budget Hollywood movie with a rich aesthetic pay-off.

| Aug 16, 2017

It is a big, bold picture that refuses to be timid, and it left me trembling. It's not just a film; it's something that happens to you.

| Jun 19, 2016

So it was good, if a bit jarring, to feel myself shrink at the film's beginning, when I found myself floating above the surface of the earth for a little while in absolute silence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 13, 2016

The CGI is flawless, and the beautiful shot construction is staggering.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 23, 2015

This is a story about people floating through space, and Alfonso Cuarón's feature brilliantly contrives to make the viewer feel similarly untethered, to often thrilling effect. This is surely the closest cinema comes to three-dimensional virtual abseiling.

| Mar 2, 2014

Cuaron's knack for long takes amplifies the terror, where devastation approaches without a sound and that thump you hear could very well be your own pulse.

| Dec 23, 2013

It's a technical marvel -- appropriately breathtaking in its evocation of space's vastness and the buffeting suffered by the two astronauts in their efforts to anchor themselves to something solid. But Cuaron also knows how suspense works.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2013

An absolute technical marvel in every way possible -- from cinematography to special effects to sound design to score, all of Gravity's technical parts work together in perfect harmony for maximum effectiveness.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 18, 2013

Despite these flaws, Gravity is an amazing experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2013

Can one smell bull**** in space?

| Nov 12, 2013

Created through a painstaking combination of physical and digital performance that disintegrates the divide between live action and animation, Gravity boasts a level of sheer visual invention that would have left Stanley Kubrick's head spinning.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2013

One can easily imagine Robert Louis Stevenson or H Rider Haggard getting a kick out of Gravity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2013

It's a bumpy trip, with two voyagers carrying, some will argue, excess charisma baggage. But it's a trip no space spectacle fan should miss.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2013

Director and co-writer Cuarón brilliantly manages to create both awe at his glorious space vistas, and knuckle-gobbling tension at what's happening in the foreground.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 7, 2013

The film of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2013

Believe the hype: Gravity is as jaw-droppingly spectacular as you've heard - magnificent from a technical perspective but also a marvel of controlled acting and precise tone.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 5, 2013

"Gravity" is a knock out, but without Bullock's movie-star charisma and everywoman relatability, the film wouldn't work nearly as well as it does.

| Oct 4, 2013