2020 · sci-fi · drama · disaster
The Midnight Sky
Directed by George Clooney1h 58m2020
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Our read: The Midnight Sky (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · drama · disaster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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How The Midnight Sky feels to watch.
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“You want quiet post-apocalyptic hope with Arctic solitude and space.”
Skip it tonight — You need propulsive sci-fi; this stays mournful and measured.
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