This is a mesmerizing film that serves as a reminder of just how amazing our country's space exploration has been.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 10, 2007

It's a stirring and persuasive plug for resuming in-person space exploration -- and it's a lot of fun besides.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2006

Overall, the production successfully maneuvers through 2D and 3D nearby-space with a playful spirit of curiosity, experiment and wonder.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 27, 2006

Go see Magnificent Desolation on the giant IMAX screen and Tom Hanks will moon-rock your world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 19, 2006

"Magnificent," indeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 23, 2005

In a cinematic era in which seemingly any feat or place can be generated for the screen, it's what these men said -- in mundane exchanges and insightful retrospection -- that stirs one most.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 29, 2005

condensing the moon program into roughly 60 minutes is a pretty impressive feat. Giving you the feeling of actually being part of it is even more impressive

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 28, 2005

Tom Hanks' folksy narration could be intended to bury as much as praise the space program: Apollo missions belonged to an era of American optimism unlikely to be revisited.

| Oct 14, 2005

As contrived as its title, Magnificent Desolation has the look and feel of a NASA fundraiser.

| Oct 10, 2005

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon is an earnest but insubstantial Imax 3-D spectacle that, even at 40 minutes, seems unduly padded.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2005

The illusion is impressive but incomplete, and therefore mildly disappointing. But I cannot deny having felt a little nervous when 'we' were standing too close to the edge at the Grand Canyon-like Hadley Rille. So clearly I am a liar.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2005

One of the astronauts describes his excitement during the lunar mission as 'like a kid playing in a sandbox.' Unfortunately, that could also sum up the film's visual content.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Adults will be more than passably entertained by this short, patriotic feature, and kids will be entranced.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Playful, inspirational.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Offers the most realistic approximation of a moon visit that Earthbound mortals have ever seen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2005

The movie's very realistic 3-D simulations and cleverly collated archival footage give filmgoers the best idea yet of what it's like to set foot on gray lunar soil.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 23, 2005

The film is fascinating history and unabashedly inspirational.

| Sep 23, 2005

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D promises to put viewers on the lunar surface, and through previously unreleased photos and footage from NASA's archives, along with CGI and re-enactments, it pulls off the illusion.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2005

It cleverly re-creates what it must have felt like to walk in the astronauts' weighted boots.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2005

The whole package is as entertaining as it is educational.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005