Natalie Portman puts in a strong, committed performance and offers an interesting perspective of a smart, competent woman who suffers from a mental breakdown. However, it's not enough to elevate a weak script and tonally uneven direction.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 5, 2022

I enjoyed its inconsistent but witty digressions. Sometimes, the right type of prose elevates the turmoil of shoddy romance, too prosaic to encounter through poetic means.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2021

Natalie Portman's talents are put to waste in this hapless story of an astronaut losing herself as she returns back to earth.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 23, 2021

Hawley articulates Lucy's mental breakdown as if running through an uninspired checklist of bourgeois female suffering that he hopes will compensate for a lack of character building.

| Mar 15, 2021

An oversimplified look at mental illness that never takes flight.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 31, 2021

No amount of obtrusive, flashy direction can make up for the weakness of the script.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 19, 2020

A film I enjoyed far more than I thought I would.

| Dec 10, 2019

But just when... director Noah Hawley is beginning to say some quite interesting things about the damaging hormonal high potentially produced by space travel, the film falls apart... and descends into near-endless melodramatic tedium.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 9, 2019

Without a doubt, Hawley is one to watch. He's one of the most visually daring directors working at the moment. But here, the material runs away with him.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2019

It's proper acting, from one of the modern greats.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2019

Portman gives her all, but she out-classes this rather pedestrian telling of a story of stratospheric levels of obsession and ambition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2019

Directed by Noah Hawley - the showrunner of the most-excellent Fargo - Lucy In The Sky completely misses the point of virtually everything it tries to tackle.

| Dec 6, 2019

By failing to find the solid ground in [Lisa] Nowak's story, Lucy in the Sky leaves us stranded in the stars.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2019

An interesting take on the transformative nature of space travel and its effects on those who experience it. Sadly though, there isn't enough here in the way of a plot, or much else really, to warrant the film's excessive two hour running time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2019

A flimsy, effortful project that simply has no footing either as fact or convincing fiction. It's in freefall from the word go.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2019

[Natalie] Portman has a great track record of playing women under extreme psychological pressure and this turn is equally Oscar-worthy. Unfortunately, the film supporting her, over-directed by 온라인카지노추천's Noah Hawley, isn't of the same calibre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2019

I call these "sadstronaut" movies.

| Nov 21, 2019

Filmmaker Noah Hawley delivers a slow-moving and mostly underwhelming character study that persistently holds the viewer at arms length...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 2, 2019

Lucy in the Sky wastes Natalie Portman in a film that fails to grasp that not every story about women is one of empowerment.

| Oct 31, 2019

There are times when the movie feels untethered to how people would actually behave, but films aren't real life even if there're based on actual events. I was willing to let Hawley tell his kind of story. I didn't mind its ragged moments.

| Oct 29, 2019