With two Oscars on his mantel, two Peopleâs Sexiest Man Alive magazine covers on his wall and two 3-year-old kids running around the house, George Clooney has done just about anything and everything in the movie business, but heâs spent most of the past few years as a husband and father.
After not acting in a movie since 2016 and not directing or producing a movie since 2017, Clooney made his return this month with âThe Midnight Sky,â an ambitious science-fiction drama that is a lot more concerned with theme and tone than flashy effects and spectacle.
Since 2013âs âGravityâ â which featured Clooney in a supporting role â picked up seven Oscars, movies about realistic near-future space travel with impeccably creative design have not been in short supply. Some have been better than others, but they all add more to the exploration of manâs place in the wide universe, and how important relationships between people are.
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The Midnight Sky is a new sci-fi movie starring George Clooney. Pic credit: Netflix
The Midnight Sky is a new sci-fi drama film that premiered on Netflix on December 23 after a limited theatrical release earlier on December 11.
The film, directed by George Clooney, also stars Clooney (as Augustine Lofthouse), alongside Felicity Jones (Sully), David Oyelowo (Commander Adewole), Tiffany Boone (Maya), Kyle Chandler (Mitchell), Caoilinn Springall (Iris), and Sophie Rundle (Jean Sullivan).
The Midnight Sky is based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning, Midnight, published in 2016.
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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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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.