The Aeronauts proves an enjoyable, if somewhat lightweight, experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

If this film were a seventy minute, close quarters thriller set in an air balloon, maybe it would be something exciting. As is, it's more of a halfhearted attempt at winning awards.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 21, 2024

...an erratic endeavor that admittedly grows more and more absorbing as it unfolds...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2023

[Jones and Redmayne] have enough chemistry to keep things interesting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2022

The Aeronauts is preoccupied with heavy, energy-deflating exposition that does little to sketch out the frustratingly thin characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

From very unpromising beginnings, The Aeronauts lifts and lifts to become something highly entertaining and surprisingly exciting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2021

The Aeronauts is an unambitious telling of a totally wild story ... [The film] races forth, sputters loudly, but never really takes us off the ground.

| Jan 28, 2021

Of course, Jones and Redmayne have incredible chemistry on screen, but this role is different for each of them.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 22, 2020

It captures my attention with its biographical tale about James Glaisher, but unfortunately not even the chemistry between Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones can prevent the trip through the skies from becoming conventional. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 15, 2020

The Aeronauts is a perfectly watchable film, occasionally quite engaging and even rather fantastic in moments.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Aug 31, 2020

The Aeronauts is more than content in being that breed of film that you can rely upon on a rainy Sunday afternoon, one which will quite happily trade on period drama cliches in a story that's ultimately quite sincere and charming.

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

There's an urgency and a danger to the scenes in the clouds, conveying the rapid shift between awe-inspiring tranquility and stormy chaos.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 15, 2020

Flamboyantly cinematic, epic on a scale as vast as the sky itself, director Tom Harper's airborne yarn about a history-making 1862 balloon flight offers more authentic thrills than a dozen Marvel movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2020

It's an enjoyable film and great work from both leading performers...

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 25, 2020

[Felicity] Jones delivers as a young woman who shrugs off 19th-century naysayers to pilot the balloon.

| May 22, 2020

A movie about the origins of meteorology might sound too niche, but the adventure of two interesting and compassionate friends high in the clouds is universally fascinating, truly suspenseful and visually stunning.

| Mar 4, 2020

Interesting based on true events story is played against a visually impressive backdrop. But the necessary chemistry between Redmayne and Jones is lacking in this movie.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 28, 2020

The Aeronauts does what movies used to do; telling us fictions to remind us to be brave and persistent.

| Jan 23, 2020

A kind of Touching the Void-meets-Gravity - with sumptuous costuming - The Aeronauts is well worth seeking out.

| Jan 21, 2020

There's always a few Oscar bait movies that completely fail to get any notices every year, and this might as well be the poster child of that sub-genre.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 17, 2020