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When I first heard aboutThe Aeronauts, I did not 100 percent believe that it was real.
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, reuniting for another British period piece five years afterThe Theory of Everything?
In a movie about Victorian hot-air balloonists?
Called, again,The Aeronauts?
Tell me, how is Benedict Cumberbatchs performance as Lord Worthington?
Notspectacularas inexcellent, mind you, or evenamazeballs, which Google inexplicablylistsamong the synonyms.
Im talkingspectacularas infull of spectacle, which is a distinction you come to appreciate while watchingThe Aeronauts.
(That a character played by Felicity Jones has a name that sounds likeEmiliais … Its a lesson the movies also learned.
We were onboard, as the aeronauts risked tumbling off it.
Still, the movie gives us that and then some.
