He’s sensitive both to their hubris and their capacity for wonder, capturing the worst of them, the best of them, and the stuff in the middle that’s just right.

Photo: Disney+ What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Given its pedigree, the only thing we can say here is that it reminds us of the 1983 movie of The Right Stuff.

The saga of the Mercury 7 was famously depicted in the 1979 book “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe and then the 1983 movie of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. Carpenter was portrayed in ...

The original film review of "The Right Stuff" from Oct. 21, 1983, by Sheila Benson.