The new film “Gravity” hardly needs another review. If you scan the internet even casually, you can’t miss the number of highly favorable commentaries, praising everything from the director to the actors to the technical wizardry. They are all correct — “Gravity” is a mesmerizing movie, probably coming as close as any of us will ever get to realizing an experience in outer space. It’s also one hell of a nerve-wracking film, a suspenseful 90-minute suspension of disbelief.

The director, Alfonso Cuaron, and the actors — Sandra Bullock and George Clooney — take us through a memorably thrilling journey when a routine spacewalk turns into a frightening disaster for the two astronauts, As others have noted, the film is a visceral treat, not an intellectual one (on the order of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001.” But I think a couple of points about it are worth making, or perhaps repeating if others have not already done so to the point of eye-rolling.

One is the 3-D effect. My movie-going experience goes all the way back to the debut of the first commercially released 3-D feature film, “Bwana Devil” in 1952. I remember clearly the native’s spears hurled at the camera, the lions seemingly about to leap from the screen. It was all unique and exciting — for about an hour. Then everyone realized the film sucked. And really, so did the primitive 3-D process. Fast forward to recent years and we’ve worn those glasses for a handful of 3-D films worth the trouble and many others less so.

I confess I’ve never seen a 3-D film which makes more artistic use of the experience than does “Gravity.” The 3-D is never intrusive, nor does it ever seem added-on. Rather, it is employed as part of — and to enhance — the storytelling. The movements of the astronauts outside their spacecraft with the Earth below are sumptuously beautiful, and the 3-D gives it a vivid frame hardly less thrilling than the plot. It was really only at the end of the film that I remembered I was wearing glasses. Employed this way by these skilled artists, what can easily be, and has often been, a gimmick becames instead an signal contributor to the film’s impact. See it and believe.

The other point I wanted to make concerns the technical aspects of having Bullock and Clooney move naturally in a weightless environment. How this is done has been covered in stories you can easily locate and which would take too much time to elaborate on here. But please know that the process works magnificently. We’ve all seen clips of real astronauts in their craft, and our eyes here are treated to extensive time that never is less than realistic to my eyes. It is another part of what causes that suspension of disbelief and that makes “Gravity” such a grand achievement.

I don’t do Academy Award selections — ok, I’m not above rating my favorites come Oscar time — but it is difficult to believe another film can match the breathtaking experience of this one. Just thought you might want to know.