Sputnik Mania
Balcony Releasing | Release Date: March 14, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
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5
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0
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0
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75
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
The archival footage here is great, and the cosmos-conquering craziness will satisfy space-race nuts. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
It was really no bigger than a beach ball, weighed about as much as a full-grown man and it beeped. And aside from transmitting a radio signal and accidentally opening a few automatic garage doors, it didn't really do anything except orbit the globe once every 96 minutes. Read full review
70
VarietyKen Eisner
A seemingly esoteric subject -- the launch of Russia's Sputnik satellite -- is exhumed and made exciting in this important slice of you-are-there documaking. Read full review
70
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
The movie lets parallels between that time and the post-9/11 era emerge organically, in the manner of a fable that subtly illuminates your own life. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
Sputnik Mania has a happy ending, thanks to German scientist Werner von Braun, who had been recruited for America after designing Nazi rockets that rained terror on England during World War II. Read full review
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