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Sunshine
Fox Searchlight
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MPAA RATING: R for violent content and language
Starring
Chris Evans,
Cillian Murphy,
Michelle Yeoh,
Troy Garity,
and
Rose Byrne
The sun is dying. It is no longer providing the energy and the light that mankind needs to survive on Earth. The entire global community pools its resources to send a mission into space to deliver a bomb to reignite the part of the sun that is failing. Our story concerns the eight astronauts and scientists who lead this mission. On their journey towards the sun the crew stumble upon the ship that was sent on the same mission seven years previously, the Icarus I, drifting in space. From this point on things start to go very wrong. Its about how the crew react under the enormous pressure of their endeavor to save mankind. (Fox Searchlight)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
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Sci-fi
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Alex Garland
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Danny Boyle
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 8, 2008
Theatrical: July 20, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
107 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

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91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A bare outline of the plot reads like a space-adventure thriller with end-of-the-world stakes and a hint of celestial spirituality, and the haunted spaceship twist in the third act is pure B-movie madness.

88
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
If their movie doesn't float your boat as a work of science-fiction, action, philosophy, heliocentrism, or staggering visual spectacle (although, it really should), then it certainly succeeds as a parable for cinematic ambition.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Sunshine is near-classic modern science fiction, hobbled only by a chaotic final reel and some casting missteps in the white-male department.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Another thinking-person's thriller from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, also co-pilots on "28 Days Later."

80
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A first-rate, seemingly sweat-free entertainer, Mr. Boyle always sells the goods smoothly, along with the chills, the laughs and, somewhat less often, the tears. He’s wickedly good at making you jump and squirm in your seat, which he does often in Sunshine, but he tends to avoid tapping into deep wells of emotion.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Sunshine is its own creature, taking inspiration from classic science fiction films but insisting on a gritty reality that much improves on past space adventures.

80
Slate
Dana Stevens
In moments--the early moments--Sunshine can feel like a new genre classic, albeit one heavily in debt to its predecessors.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Beam yourselves aboard Sunshine, set 50 years in the future. The voyage works, beautifully.

75
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
The fact that Boyle and Garland have here created something close to an actual trip rather than the mere spectacle that most screen sci-fi contents itself with being nowadays is enough to recommend Sunshine.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
What this spectacular-looking sci-fi thriller lacks in originality it makes up for in pure beauty: It just might be the most visually audacious and startlingly beautiful space opera since the original "Solaris."

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Despite the efforts of the cast (Byrne and Murphy are particularly good), you rarely feel a thing for any of them, but I don't think you're really supposed to, anyway. The characters in Sunshine tackle thorny ethical questions and debate the sanctity of life on their way to the sun, but the movie is really about the voyage, not the voyagers. Enjoy the sights.

75
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
This sci-fi thriller -- which is alternately nail-biting, gorgeous and a little silly -- spends most of its time throwing mechanical and human errors at the most important space mission ever.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
As a pure cinematic experience, it's exhilaratingly, brutally beautiful.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Hard-core science fiction fans will likely greet Sunshine with a smile. Others may find this to be an odd motion picture, but there's enough going on that even those who are expecting something flashier should still be engaged.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Science-fiction fans will like it, and also brainiacs, and those who sometimes look at the sky and think, man, there's a lot going on up there, and we can't even define precisely what a soliton is.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The most indelible moment I took away from Sunshine, in which a tiny figure in a golden space suit floats away from the ship into the gravitational pull of the sun, is one of ecstatic, appalling loneliness.

70
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
They’ve taken "2001" and Tarkovsky’s "Solaris" and "Silent Running," mixed in stuff from save-the-earth pictures like "The Core" and "Deep Impact," and thrown in a cheesy climax out of "Alien."

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
For though it can't maintain its momentum all the way to the end, Sunshine until it stumbles is gratifyingly far from the usual space-opera stuff.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Sunshine does for sci-fi what "28 Days Later" . . . did for the zombie movie -- its tale about a manned space mission to the sun preys on our growing fear of obliteration as we confront global warming.

67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Too much of Sunshine is like a cross between a middling "Alien" movie and "Solaris" (the woozy Steven Soderbergh version).

63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The whole thing burns out well before the director reaches his final destination.

63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
So what starts out as fascinating sci-fi becomes just fi, and winds up pulp fi.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
That last wrong turn completely undoes a picture that had been steering a very impressive course.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
As the film ultimately deviates from its course, the entire undertaking suffers.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Sunshine can be seen as a story about science and religion, about the rational mind and the mad. But at a certain point, like a dying star about to pop into eternal nothingness, the movie can't be seen as anything - it just implodes.

60
Film Threat
Don R. Lewis
Danny Boyle still creates an impressive world, visually rich and yet cold and claustrophobic.

60
Variety
Derek Elley
Like a collapsing star, Sunshine initially burns brightly but finally implodes into a dramatic black hole.

60
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
Ideas scintillate over the surface of Sunshine without ever quite igniting, but at least the movie sparkles. What it doesn't do is cohere. Action flick, sci-fi thriller, metaphysical adventure, incoherent allegory, ethical hypothesis, and horror film all at once, this mad multitasker has the agenda of a dozen movies. Problem is, we know which ones.

58
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
It's one big miss.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Problems arise in the film’s third act, however, with a profoundly implausible plot turn that sends the movie skidding into bogeyman horror. It cheapens the sentiment, and the film doesn’t recover.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
One of those unapologetically cerebral space-exploration sci-fi movies that's both boring and compelling at once.

50
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The film is nonsense, and what counts is whether viewers will feel able to lay aside their logical complaints and bask in what remains: a trip in search of a tan.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
The characters are so sketchily drawn that it's hard to keep them straight, let alone get worked up about their survival.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Directed by Danny Boyle, it lacks even a single moment of charm or interest.


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