Mexican writer/director Alfonso Cuaron blew me away with his dystopian action movie “Children of Men” back in 2006. Now he’s done it again with the most realistic space adventure since Kubrick’s astonishing “2001: A Space Odyssey.” “Gravity” works on every level, from the dramatic to the technological, and to see it in Imax 3-D is truly the way to go with this baby.
It’s basically a two-character performance. George Clooney is the veteran space shuttle skipper Matt Kowalski, who spins shaggy dog tales back to Mission Control (the voice of Ed Harris, in a subtle tribute to “Apollo 13”) and plays country music on his two-way. Sandra Bullock is science officer Ryan Stone, on her first space mission to do some repair work on the Hubble telescope.