The Midnight Sky

Jeremy Lebens of The Daily Rotation

2020-12-26

Depressing and bleak, George Clooney's The Midnight Sky is a performance-driven sci-fi think piece that spends too much time inside of its own head. Clooney's direction is sound, which when paired with a handful of solid performances, makes this a surprising misfire as the script struggles to conjure up anything remotely interesting, including a dud ending that's beyond predictable.

Ulkar Alakbarova of Movie Moves Me

2021-01-14

The Midnight Sky is one of Clooney’s finest works that will be quickly forgotten and lost in the cinematic universe. Read more

Jeffrey Rex Bertelsen of I'm Jeffrey Rex

2020-12-29

I think that The Midnight Sky is not just uneven and unfocused but also relatively dull. Clooney’s latest film just didn’t live up to its potential. Read more

Sean Markey of Geek Ireland

2020-12-31

At the end of the day, a bad script is still a bad script, and a few nice visuals do precious little to elevate The Midnight Sky above the exercise in tedium that it ultimately is. Read more

Filipe Freitas of Always Good Movies

2021-01-11

This slogging post-apocalyptic fiction composed of space inanity and uninspired snow routes crawls right toward disappointment, lacking smart moves and shaping up as a collage of other already existing ideas. A monumental let down. Read more

The Massie Twins of Gone With The Twins

2021-01-01

The Midnight Sky could have been a cautionary tale about mankind destroying Earth, or even just a visual spectacle to take in the wonders of an alien planet or a tranquil spacewalk, but instead it’s a meandering, ineffectively existential, terrible bore. Read more