A Midnight Clear is powerful without being overbearing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 28, 2018

He infuses A Midnight Clear with a slightly skewed, surreal quality. About the only defect in Gordon's second feature is its tendency to drag in the middle.

| Jun 8, 2018

The sentiments aren`t fresh, but the skill of the writing and a superior ensemble American cast makes the drama memorable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2015

A Midnight Clear is a beautifully written, directed and acted movie, but it is so gut-wrenching, so taut, that it is more catharsis than entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2015

A Midnight Clear doesn't do as much as it might with its characters. But as a parable of human folly and fragile hope, it has considerable impact.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 4, 2013

[Gordon] clearly relishes the story's many ironies, and he's often successful at sharing his enjoyment of them with us.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2013

This film about a real incident that occurred near the end of World War II is involving, always focused and affectingly acted.

Full Review | Dec 4, 2013

A powerful tragedy full of surprises and visual style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2013

Keith Gordon's adap of William Wharton's novel is low on action, long on mood and psychological complexity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2013

It's so determined to be haunting that it gives up the ghost.

Full Review | Dec 4, 2013

A Midnight Clear -- not quite a great war movie but certainly a sensitive, bright and supremely moral one -- shows how courage itself can be a kind of insanity.

| Dec 4, 2013

Much of it has a seriousness and intelligence that are all too rare on today's movie scene.

| Dec 4, 2013

Despite such peculiarities, or perhaps because of them, A Midnight Clear has a quirky, haunting quality, delivering good performances all around, but especially from Sinise, Hawke and Frank Whaley.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2013

"In combat, confusion is normal," an Army manual helpfully pointed out in World War II. That same confusion seems to have infected A Midnight Clear.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2013

This fable about the futility of the war benefits not only from fine performances but an intelligent and literate offscreen narration that enhances the movie's conceptual integrity.

| Dec 4, 2012

It acknowledges war as a fact, but embraces pacifism.

| Original Score: A | Jul 6, 2010

This skilful adaptation of William Wharton's novel creates close relationships between each character. Strong performances and precise direction help maintain them to the surprise ending.

| Dec 5, 2008

The pristine, snowbound setting gives the film a still, other-worldly quality, and makes for some arresting images, particularly that of a German and an American corpse frozen in a posthumous embrace.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 4, 2006

The performances are uniformly excellent as the film moves inexorably towards bloody confrontation and spiritual reckoning.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2005