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The Midnight Sky
2020 118 min United States of America PG-13 12+
★6.0
Science Fiction, Drama
Director: George Clooney
🎭 Based on
«Good Morning, Midnight»
byLily Brooks-Dalton
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Description
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Worldwide:
$70,018
Starring
George Clooney
Actor
Felicity Jones
Actor
David Oyelowo
Actor
Awards
Academy Awards 2021
— Best Visual Effects
BAFTA 2021
— Best Visual Effects
Golden Globe 2021
— Best Original Score
Key opinion
The Midnight Sky is a visually polished but tonally uneven sci-fi drama that struggles to balance its ambitious scope with a fragmented and often lethargic narrative. While many appreciate George Clooney's committed performance and the film's sincere emotional core, others find the storytelling manipulative and scientifically hollow.
| Cinematography | Visually, the film excels with high-production-value cinematography and a haunting score by Alexander Desplat that create an immersive, albeit familiar, aesthetic. | |
| Acting | George Clooney’s physical transformation and committed portrayal of a dying scientist provide a soulful, grounding presence for an otherwise hollow script. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is widely criticized for being thin and overloaded, suffering from plot holes and a failure to clearly establish the stakes of the mission. | |
| Pacing | The film's pacing is deeply polarizing; those who enjoy a contemplative, character-driven tempo find it resonant, while others find it sluggish, boring, and lacking in necessary momentum. | |
| Emotion | The emotional impact is divisive, with some viewers moved by the film's focus on human connection and self-sacrifice, while others find the attempts to elicit tears to be forced and manipulative. | |
| Adaptation | As an adaptation, the film is seen by some as failing to capture the nuance of the source material, resulting in a narrative that feels less like a grounded drama and more like a superficial genre exercise. |