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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganA thrilling, action-packed, wide-vista yarn from the sharp quills of Jack Thorne and co-writer and director Tom Harper, this Amazon-backed project is deceptively simple yet surprisingly deft.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Aeronauts achieves impressive elevation as a bracing and sympathetic account of two early and very different aviators who together reached literal new heights in a perilous field of endeavor.
- 80The Observer (UK)Simran HansThe Observer (UK)Simran HansInspired by real events, the film is at its best when it leans into the action-adventure genre; director Tom Harper smartly uses camera-shake and closeups to immerse the audience in the weather’s volatility.
- 75The PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe PlaylistGregory EllwoodA hodgepodge of a story that only really works when Glaisher and Wren are in the sky. And when they are it’s absolutely gorgeous.
- 75TheWrapSasha StoneTheWrapSasha StoneThe Aeronauts serves an important purpose as an aspirational film for young girls who either love science, or whose parents hope they see the movie and understand that women can be just as excited about taking a hero’s journey as any man.
- 70VarietyTomris LafflyVarietyTomris LafflyThe duo [of Redmayne and Jones] hand-in-hand elevates [The Aeronauts] ... from a flimsy action-adventure to something worth watching on the biggest possible screen, even if it operates on a handful of clichés with little character-based substance to speak of.
- 67IndieWireEric KohnIndieWireEric KohnThere’s enough potential with the balloon’s feats to justify an entire feature-length experience set within its basket, but The Aeronauts constantly interrupts the journey to shoehorn random tangents on the ground, and busies up the drama with underdeveloped side characters.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a film with charm and the chemistry between Jones and Redmayne has something rather platonic and even sibling-like, but that isn’t to say there isn’t a spark of sorts.
- 40The TelegraphHelen O'HaraThe TelegraphHelen O'HaraWe know that this cast can produce magic together, and that this director can inject pace into unlikely topics. It’s just this one that seems to have feet of clay.