The Aeronauts

The Aeronauts gives priority to production design over engaging storytelling, and the film never recovers from its exceptionally bland script.

[The] breathtaking spectacle of it all is glorious.

Yes, women belong in balloons. They also belong in good movies, and it's a shame this isn't one.

While at times the film does reach great heights, a certain indecisiveness about what exactly it is, The Aeronauts often finds itself adrift in the moments it gets off the ground at all.

Dull, plodding, and formulaic.

...if you're a grown woman watching The Aeronauts, you may feel-as feisty as Jones' performance is-that you're being talked down to. It's as if women don't have enough adventure stories of our own.

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.

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

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

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