This vibe won’t work for everyone, but it’s an intoxicating slice of life. Nothing much happens, but that’s ok. For ninety minutes you get to live life as a kid in 1969 Houston, with Jack Black our amiable narrator, as he’s playing the adult Stanley. Linklater has filled the movie mostly with unknowns in terms of the cast, which works to its benefit as you truly feel like you’re watching a real family. Bill Wise, a Linklater regular, plays Stanley’s dad, who has an unglamorous job at NASA, while Lee Eddy plays his mom. Other than Black, the most prominent names are Glen Powell and Zachary Levi, who play two NASA officials in Stanley’s fantasies. Again, the episodic, slice-of-life nature of the movie won’t appeal to everyone. For those of you who thought there were too many driving scenes in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, you might find this frustrating as Stanley’s effort to cheat at pinball and watch TV probably get equal importance to his fantasies of being on the moon. Still, to me, there was something hypnotic about it. The movie gives you a legitimate feel for what it must have been like to be there at such a brilliant moment in history. I can’t think of anything else quite like it.