»The Midnight Sky Movie Review: George Clooney Looks Like a Glum Santa Claus, Does Not Bring Cheer
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The Midnight Sky Movie Review: George Clooney Looks Like a Glum Santa Claus, Does Not Bring Cheer The Midnight Sky still feat George Clooney The Midnight Sky has some gorgeous visuals, but in times like these when the world is passing through a crisis, do we need a plot like this – dreary and infusing a sense of hopelessness in us?
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Director: George Clooney
Cast: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demián Bichir, Kyle Chandler, Caoilinn Springall, Sophie Rundle, Ethan Peck
It may be the unique circumstances in which we are living, but it feels like every movie released in 2020 turns out to be about subsistence. Right until the final light is extinguished (or the final fade to black), it’s all about getting by as best we can, for as long as that may be.
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News of the World (PG-13) Paul Greengrass tries to be John Ford. It doesn’t work. The director of The Bourne Ultimatum adapts Paulette Jiles’ Western novel about a Civil War veteran (Tom Hanks) who makes a living as an itinerant newsreader in Texas who finds an orphaned German girl (Helena Zengel) whose Kiowa family has been slaughtered and resolves to take her from Wichita Falls to Castroville to her last remaining biological relatives. Greengrass knows how to stage a shootout when our protagonist has to defend the girl against a band of pedophiles in the open country, but little of interest comes from the journey taken by two people who don’t speak the other’s language. Without the heart of the story, this Western is as arid as the Texas air. Also with Elizabeth Marvel, Michael Angelo Covino, Ray McKinnon, Fred Hechinger, Thomas Francis Murphy, Bill Camp, and Mare Winningham. (Opens Friday)
In George Clooney s
The Midnight Sky, the journey across Arctic s snowy expanse literalises a hero s self-redemption. A grizzled old scientist treks through an icy wasteland to contact a crew of astronauts. He must prevent them from returning to an Earth destroyed by a mysterious catastrophe.
Clooney s imposing vision of a dying world brings to mind Cormac McCarthy’s
The Road. Only, if McCarthy explored the depths of human nature, Clooney barely scratches the surface. Where films like
Solaris and
The Midnight Sky gets stuck in shallow soap opera.
So his adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton s novel plays too much like a vanilla sci-fi drama with literary aspirations.
George Clooney mocked Ted Cruz for supporting Donald Trump despite him suggesting that the Texas senator s wife was ugly during a heated Twitter exchange in 2016.