As you’ve probably noticed by now, Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity has earned widespread applause both from critics, pal filmmakers and also the movie-going public. At the time of writing, the movie’s UK Twitter feed is filling up with retweets from notable filmmakers and celebrities.

Edgar Wright described it as the “best movie of the year.” Eli Roth said it was his “best sci-fi experience I’ve had in a theater since Alien and Avatar“, while Michael Moore used the terms “breathtaking” and “brilliant”. The second man on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin, even weighed in with his own review, stating that he was “very, very impressed with it.”

No less a director than James Cameron led the charge earlier this year, describing Gravity as “the best space movie ever done.” That widely-shared quotation set the pace for the adulation to come, with the sci-fi survival movie’s buzz gathering through its various festival screenings before its surprisingly (and reassuringly) successful general release in US cinemas last weekend.

Unfortunately, the vagaries of UK screening embargoes mean we can’t share exactly what we thought of Gravity with you just yet (it’s not out until November on these shores), but we can at least echo many of the sentiments you’ve probably already read about elsewhere: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are both excellent as the respective scientist space rookie and seasoned astronaut, and Cuaron’s direction is just about flawless.