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The Midnight Sky
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Itâs another bad day in space, with some complications on Earth making things even more perilous, as Netflixâs
The Midnight Sky sees George Clooney trying to warn a crew of astronauts away from returning to Earth. To be fair, things are in pretty rough shape in this sci-fi film thatâs made its debut on the streaming service, and with one particularly big twist in the works, the stakes are even greater. Which means itâs time to warn you, the reader, that weâre about to get pretty deep into
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By MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN | The Washington Post | Published: December 16, 2020 Set in the year 2049, in the immediate aftermath of an unspecified global calamity that appears, based on scant but at times scary evidence, to be both environmental and technological perhaps even financial, political and cultural “The Midnight Sky” only looks like a disaster film. Slyly, and by misdirection that cleverly conceals its true intent until the poignant end, it reveals itself to be a story of regret over a lost opportunity for connection. George Clooney, who also directed Mark L. Smith’s smart adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2016 novel, plays the fulcrum of the film’s deft pivot: Augustine Lofthouse, an astronomer stationed at an observatory in far-northern Canada, inside the Arctic Circle. As the film opens, and Augustine’s research colleagues are being evacuated by plane to their homes and an unknown fate he alone has decided to remain. It’s not that Augustine is bo