The Midnight Sky

Name: The Midnight Sky
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
Released: December 11, 2020
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 58
Cast: David Oyelowo, Demián Bichir, Ethan Peck, Felicity Jones, George Clooney

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): December 11, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: David Oyelowo, Demián Bichir, Ethan Peck, Felicity Jones, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, Miriam Shor, Sophie Rundle, Tiffany Boone, Tim Russ

Summary: Augustine (George Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Director: George Clooney

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 122 min

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Richard Roeper

Dec 22, 2020

The Midnight Sky is a waking dream that keeps you in its grips. Read full review

Simran Hans

Dec 13, 2020

Set pieces . . . are thrilling and judiciously spaced. The performances Clooney draws out are even better. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Dec 9, 2020

There are several arresting visual set pieces . . . And there's the more ordinary pleasure, too, of seeing this many good actors, snug and earnest in their jumpsuits, go to work. But the film often feels less like its own distinct narrative than a sort of greatest-hits amalgam of movies like The Martian, Gravity, Interstellar, Ad Astra, and all the others that came before. Read full review

Empire Nick de Semlyen

Dec 9, 2020

Swinging between ice and space, Clooney has upped his directorial ambition and delivered a big-scale, big-hearted story, even if it struggles to match the films it riffs on. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Dec 24, 2020

The last five minutes of Midnight Sky are touching and beautifully acted — if you’re willing to wait for it. Read full review

Ty Burr

Dec 10, 2020

The Midnight Sky is handsome to look at and, in its early scenes, quite engrossing. But it’s an oddly structured affair and, in the end, the director can’t keep it on course. Read full review

Keith Watson

Dec 10, 2020

The film minimizes the tragedy of the human race’s near-complete annihilation by positioning it as the backdrop for the world’s most grandiose deadbeat-dad redemption arc. Read full review

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MAJORSTS

Dec 16, 2020

George Clooney is amazing in this film. Great story and a great script. Great film!

3 of 10 users found this helpful37

Leighb

Jan 3, 2021

Thoughtful, beautifully paced and incredibly moving this is full of great acting, photography and use of silence

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tropicAces

Dec 11, 2020

It’s clearly trying to be Gravity and The Martian and a dozen other films, but the emotional and adventure aspects of the story outweigh the familiar flaws.

2 of 6 users found this helpful24

mbeckford

Dec 30, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I love a good apocalyptic thriller but this was a complete yawner. Literally nothing happens on a frozen/torched earth (we never really know what caused the apocalypse) or on the space mission to find a habitable moon/planet. A mute girl shows up "suspiciously" to give Clooney something to worry about, and the usual tropes of traveling in space are the main source of drama there. (The reveal on that girl in the end I had pegged immediately and I'm really not that clever.)

Clooney plays against type as a soft spoken engineer sporting a full-on Santa beard wth a buzz cut. Felicity Jones is a pregnant astronaut with nothing much to do except worry a lot. The most interesting scene was a dream where she's on a potential habitable moon of Jupiter and the ship leaves without her. Now that would've made for an interesting flick, except it was already done with The Martian.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Jan 3, 2021

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It starts as a sci-fi blockbuster, goes indie by confining itself to a couple of room-sized sets, then morphs into a survival movie and eventually implodes into a claustrophobic bubble even for today's standards of Disney films: while the new Holy Family moves to an(Mauro Lanari)
It starts as a sci-fi blockbuster, goes indie by confining itself to a couple of room-sized sets, then morphs into a survival movie and eventually implodes into a claustrophobic bubble even for today's standards of Disney films: while the new Holy Family moves to an extraterrestrial place, with the passing of the minutes the emotion becomes rarefied and frozen, sinking into the air and water of the Arctic or into the void of cosmic space.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

katezoe

Dec 24, 2020

George Clooney directs this maudlin science-fiction drama. Bland acting and a story that has been done too many times. A waste of time.

6 of 7 users found this helpful61

Dostoyevsky3

Jan 21, 2021

A dead-beat film filled with glum and gloom that fails to answer the question of its very existence. The Midnight Sky is the most dissatisfying movie experience you could find and has mixed writing that only tanks the film with its depressed story.

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