‘Starman’ Review: An Outer Space Documentary That’s Out of This World
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic When I was four, my parents took me to a planetarium for the first time. It was a huge one, in Chicago; it seemed as big as space itself.
I enjoyed many more visits to planetariums over the years, but none could ever match the experience I had when I was four. I looked up at that epic black domed sky and thought the stars and planets were real.
I felt in sync with them, almost part of them, enthralled, immersed, and wonderstruck. That’s the sensation I had watching “Starman.” It’s a documentary about space exploration that puts you in touch with your inner wide-eyed child.
It’s the intergalactic meditation as blissed-out mind-bender. The film’s director, Robert Stone, made what I consider to be the single greatest documentary about the American space program — the six-hour-long “Chasing the Moon,” which was shown on PBS in 2019.
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