What Goes Up

Stumbling Through Hazy Days of Winter

There’s some nice filmmaking tucked inside “What Goes Up,” a muddle of moods and intentions. The British comic actor Steve Coogan plays Campbell Babbitt, a flailing, depressed journalist who’s sent to New Hampshire in the mid-1980s to write an article pegged to the imminent liftoff of Christa McAuliffe, the high school teacher who was part of the Challenger space mission.
There he has close encounters with a group of adolescent outsiders mourning the death of another teacher, who happened to be one of Campbell’s old college friends. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (2479 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 29 maggio 2009