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Stephen Holden, New York Times: In the Shadow of the Moon is a morale booster. The power of its archival images hasn't diminished with familiarity. Read more
Reece Pendleton, Chicago Reader: The astronaut interviews are fun and occasionally moving... Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Thanks to who they are and what they're talking about, the ten talking heads of In the Shadow Of the Moon are more dramatic than the heroes of most dramas. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: If you've seen such NASA boosters as For All Mankind, Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon, do you really need to catch the latest one, In the Shadow of the Moon on the big screen? In a word: Yes Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: These are old stories told with minimal artistry, and the film lacks the vision that might separate it from a crowded field. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: It certainly is fascinating. Read more
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: It's so simple, so obvious -- and a revelation. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It feels good to remember those days, even now. Especially now. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It has the air of an officially sanctioned tribute rather than a probing study, but it's stirring all the same. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Though Shadow could use a bit more confessionals and a bit less history, it still succeeds as a reminder of America's can-do spirit at its best. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: This magnificent documentary about the Apollo missions to the moon contains oodles of original, beautifully remastered NASA footage that has never been seen before. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: There's vibrant visual poetry here. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The contrast between the near-surreal space footage and the down-to-earth men who were actually in those spacesuits is awe-inspiring. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: In the Shadow of the Moon finds new resonance in the moment when America redefined progress -- but also when it heeded the siren song of a world so desolate it reminded you what a paradise ours truly is. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: The movie fills us with wonder, and pride, and a tugging sense of loss. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It's a well-timed tribute to American initiative and courage... Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A movie about the space race, In the Shadow of the Moon recalls a different kind of sixties high, the out-of-planetary experience of landing on the moon. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: The crowd-pleaser has enough ambition to pitch a one-size-fits-all philosophy based on the Apollo crew's revelation that looking down from space, our problems seem trivial. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: It has taken a British director, David Sington, to do what nobody has done before: sit down with surviving Apollo astronauts and get them to talk us through what was, in retrospect, the happiest public event of an unhappy century. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: I came out giddy, feeling lighter -- by about five-sixths -- than I did when I went in. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Imagine a time when we actually could set ourselves a national goal -- and meet it within a decade. Imagine an era when the whole free world cheered us on to do it, and then celebrated with us when we did. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Oh, what stories these heroes have to tell. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: It's a stirring reminder of a time when anything seemed possible. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: David Sington's In the Shadow of the Moon moved me to the extremes of nostalgia, regret and outright admiration as no other movie has moved me this year, even though -- or perhaps because -- it is a mere documentary. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: When it comes to the Apollo program, nobody relates the saga of men going to the moon quite like the corps of 24 who actually made the trip. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: In the Shadow of the Moon is, quite simply, a revelation. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Successfully recaptures the feeling of what made the Apollo missions so special. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A researcher for this production spent years screening NASA footage that was still, in many cases, in its original film cans and had never been seen. The film was cleaned up and restored, the color refreshed, and the result is beautiful and moving. Read more
Leba Hertz, San Francisco Chronicle: For those of us old enough, it is another magical reminder of how these missions gave us some hope in very challenging times. For those of us too young, this will give you an idea of what it meant to watch those baby steps that led to one giant leap. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A moving and masterful documentary by British filmmaker David Sington. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: David Sington more than makes up for the straightforward nature of his film with the quality of its interviews and plenitude of staggering archive footage. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: One small documentary for a filmmaker and one giant leap in inspiration for audiences. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: The excitement, majesty and extraordinary human accomplishment of the American lunar program of the '60s and early '70s is rousingly captured in In the Shadow of the Moon. Read more
Jim Ridley, Village Voice: In the Shadow of the Moon recalls the wondrous moment when America had the entire world looking up, up, and not away. Read more
Joel Achenbach, Washington Post: Now, finally, we know what it was like to walk on the moon: unbelievably cool. Amazing. Fantastic. Scary. Read more