Movie: ‘Gravity’ Stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By A.O. Scott

HOLLYWOOD---The defiance of impossibility is this movie’s theme and its reason for being. But the main challenge facing the director, Alfonso Cuarón (who wrote the script with his son Jonás), is not visualizing the unimaginable so much as overcoming the audience’s assumption that we’ve seen it all before. Mr. Cuarón succeeds by tethering almost unfathomably complex techniques — both digital and analog — to a simple narrative. “Gravity” is less a science-fiction spectacle than a Jack London tale in orbit. Cosmic questions about our place in the universe are not so much avoided as subordinated to more pressing practical concerns. [link]