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 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

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

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

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

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

| Feb 9, 2006

In A Midnight Clear, just about everything works.

| May 20, 2003

A Midnight Clear tells a wartime yarn that's quietly, often lyrically, winning.

| Jan 1, 2000

...Gordon shows the kind of filmmaking talent that creates genuine excitement.

| Jan 1, 2000

...It's a good film, and Gordon is uncanny in the way he suggests the eerie forest mysteries that permeate all of the action.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

There are whole segments in A Midnight Clear that have little or no use here and scream of padding, which is really too bad.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000