Sandra Bullock in 'Gravity' Warner Bros.  In one form or
another, motion pictures have been with us since the middle of
the 19th century, but there's never been one like "Gravity."
What's new in Alfonso Cuarón's 3-D space adventure is the nature
of the motion. It's as if the movie medium had been set free to
dance in a bedazzling zero-gravity dream sequence.  WSJ Film
Critic Joe Morgenstern explains why, although motion pictures
have been with us since the middle of the 19th century in one
form or another, there's never been one like "Gravity." (Photo:
Warner Bros. Pictures)  Like many dreams of seizing intensity,
this one is both deliriously beautiful and charged with primal
fear—not just fear of falling, but of hurtling up, spinning out,
breaking loose from our planet's embrace. Two astronauts, George
Clooney's Matt Kowalski and Sandra Bullock's Ryan Stone, are
adrift in space after disaster strikes during a shuttle mission
to the Hubble Telescope. Tethered to each other at first, they
tumble wildly out of