
Radio New Zealand
Deserves the biggest and best screen you can find – and as much of your attention as you can spare...
Full reviewGeorge Clooney directs and stars in this post-apocalyptic tale as a lone scientist on a near-destroyed Earth, rushing to make contact with a crew of astronauts and stop them from returning home before it's too late. Based on Lily Brooks-Dalton's novel Good Morning, Midnight, co-starring Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones (Rogue One) and two-time Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo (Selma).
Deserves the biggest and best screen you can find – and as much of your attention as you can spare...
Full reviewJust proves that a movie that reaches for the stars can still come up empty-handed.
Full reviewClooney guides the performances competently, but the story drifts pointlessly into space.
Full reviewNo ray guns, no tentacular beasties, just gravitas in a film that goes boldly about its business but never quite lands.
Full reviewClooney has upped his directorial ambition and delivered a big-scale, big-hearted story, even if it struggles to match the films it riffs on.
Full reviewIn Clooney’s capable directing hands, the film’s emotional core and human touch are never a waste of space.
Full reviewNever loses grasp of the chilly atmosphere that inspires every moment; if only it there was something fresh about that.
Full reviewGradually, Midnight Sky becomes a nailbiter—not over the fate of the Earth or the astronauts so much as whether its two storylines will coalesce into something more meaningful.
Full reviewOften 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.
Full reviewClooney delivers a thoughtful reflection on the toll of environmental devastation.
Full reviewThere's heart and decency here, as well as a couple of set-pieces that pay their way.
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