George Clooney's latest is a boring mess
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Graham Hillard
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In days of yore, when “opening night” meant something other than a movie’s initial arrival in one’s Netflix queue, I would have gotten dressed and driven into town to see
The Midnight Sky, a new sci-fi thriller based on the novel
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. On Christmas Eve, I merely pressed a button. Though the latter feels dismayingly incommensurate to the exertion required to create large-scale feature films, it represents the exact amount of effort one should expend in pursuit of the streaming giant’s latest stinker.