Gravity
2013 · Alfonso Cuaron · 91 min · Sci-Fi / Thriller
Gravity is a 91-minute survival thriller that operates at a level of technical craft most films never approach. Sandra Bullock carries nearly every frame with a performance that's equal parts physical and emotional, and Alfonso Cuaron's direction turns the emptiness of space into something claustrophobic. The dialogue won't win any awards, and the characters exist more as vessels for the experience than as fully realized people. But what an experience it is. This is a film that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes it with relentless precision.