The Midnight Sky
2020, drama, science fiction
118 minutes
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
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10
2020-12-09
Clooney’s combined work on this drama is forthright with its altruism and free of forced villainy. True to the earlier introduction, this experience to be cherished rises to be about character more than crisis, which is where poignant performances take over. Their benevolence is mesmerizing and their endurance beyond is moving. Read more
7.2
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.
7.0
2020-12-22
Clooney has a deserved Oscar nom for directing, and his latest course is steady as she goes. Many of the deep space segments, buoyed by another wonderful score from Alexandre Desplat... Read more
6.0
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
6.0
2020-12-23
The Midnight Sky is a well-made and ambitious piece of sci-fi filmmaking, but it lacks the proper emotional punch it needed to truly connect. Read more
5.5
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
5.0
2020-12-10
Up in space, the drama is just as inert. Sully and her crew, including her child's father, scientist Tom, are a poorly sketched lot. Read more
4.0
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
3.0
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
3.0
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
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6.0
2020-12-24
The Midnight Sky is visueel prachtig, maar het plot van de film voelt helaas net zo leeg als de ijzige landschappen waarin het personage van Clooney ronddwaalt. Read more
5.0
2020-12-24
De nieuwe Netflix-film mag dan wel fraaie beelden hebben met mooie special effects, het faalt in zijn geheel door opnieuw dezelfde fout te maken die regisseur George Clooney steeds maakt: Zijn editing raakt wal noch kade... Read more
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