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      The Midnight Sky

      2020, Sci-fi/Drama, 1h 58m

      251 Reviews 2,500+ Ratings

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      The Midnight Sky lacks the dramatic heft to match its narrative scale, but its flaws are often balanced by thoughtful themes and a poignant performance from director-star George Clooney. Read critic reviews

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      The Midnight Sky (2020)

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      A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

      • Rating: PG-13 (Some Bloody Images|Brief Strong Language)

      • Genre: Sci-fi, Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: George Clooney

      • Producer: Grant Heslov, George Clooney, Keith Redmon, Bard Dorros, Cliff Roberts

      • Writer: Mark L. Smith

      • Release Date (Theaters):  limited

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      • Distributor: Netflix

      • Production Co: Syndicate Entertainment, Anonymous Content, Smokehouse Pictures, Netflix, Truenorth Productions

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      • Feb 23, 2021

        A solemn, poignant watch with whispers of hope. Midnight Sky unveils a massive premise with a much smaller human story. Clooney directs and stars in this carefully crafted piece of filmmaking full of subtlety that's unfortunately, not seen as much in new media.

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      • Jan 10, 2021

        =Spoilers= A movie ruined by virtually any description of the plot, the ending ignores the elephant in the room that it takes about 10 000 people to posses a large enough gene-pool to continue the human race. An incredibly depressing movie that can't seem to decide if some characters are real or imaginary but walks the vague line between. It's an interesting effort to not explain things, but it felt more like there weren't any good answers to the unexplained elements. The acting was phenomenal but the truly dark tone of the movie is never actually addressed by the movie. Two characters essentially suicide on a hopeless endeavor when they could have helped the remaining survivors and spent their lives preserving what they could of the human race.

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      • Jan 05, 2021

        The Midnight Sky is one of those high concept ideas that never reaches its potential. I had been intrigued to see what George Clooney could accomplish with a high budget and a streaming platform not known for strong arming filmmakers on final cut. The end product is mixed and the overall tone is all over the place. The film feels safe and it never allows the supporting cast the opportunity to shine. I found the film to be too short. The overall idea was interesting and the Clooney character moments are what keeps this film together. I had heard of the mixed reception prior to watching and it wasn't until the middle I found the film started to sink underneath its on weight. There was an opportunity for Clooney to really land a sci fi concept with little restraint but this sadly falls into the very common pile of Netflix films that don't work. 04/01/2021

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      • Dec 30, 2020

        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 <i>The Martian</i>.

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