Initially spectacular sci-fi road movie from Jeff Nichols that loses its way.
Soulful sci-fi. A tribute to ’80s classics, but with a 21st-century twist: Close Encounters of a new kind.
Supernaturalism for sceptics: teaming up for the fourth time, Nichols and Shannon deliver another slow-burn, grounded triumph.
This is a film that draws you in even as it perplexes you and that ultimately has a very strong emotional kick.
Jeff Nichols’s silly sci-fi mystery stars an almost parodic Michael Shannon and gets weaker as it goes on.
Midnight Special is a film with many virtues even if it leaves you scratching your head at all the questions it simply refuses to answer.
Jeff Nichols’s gripping cosmic thriller has it all – a superb cast, gritty realism and a final-act reveal that will amaze you…
The tone is earnest but grim-faced and that makes it tough to buy into the latter part of the film as it morphs into the sort of self-serious sci-fi wig-out that wouldn’t be out of place in a rote episode of The X-Files.
Midnight Special: the gritty road movie that takes a Spielbergian twist
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