Fly Me to the Moon

Fans of the genre will appreciate the chemistry between the stars, and the skill with which the plot connects them personally and tests them professionally.

Sweet and charming.

The space rom-com with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum doesn’t know what it wants to be.

This rom-com about the marketing of the Apollo space program, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, has an inconsistent tone and a vague point of view.

Fly Me to the Moon is an underwhelming space race film that can’t quite decide on its genre.

Johansson fires ace after ace; Tatum stands there like a tree, watching them sail past... Fly Me To the Moon is not bad, but it’s unlikely to send you into orbit either.

It is ultimately a $100m triumph of period production design that feels at least two script drafts away from balancing its frankly weird assortment of reference points, ideas and emotions.

A surprise-filled rom-com for the fake news era. A surprise-filled rom-com for the fake news era.

Abort mission!

It’s that thing you want and think we can’t have: entertainment with brains, a comedy with surprise, a love story with guts.