We may not always know what’s going on, but the character of Hoolihan is sympathetic, complex, and driven, elevated by Clarkson’s allure and subdued emotion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

The issue here is that surrealism and the detective narrative aren't exactly the most complimentary, especially when it lulls the viewer into a state we call sleep.

| Mar 22, 2021

Morley delights in allowing the story, adapted from the Martin Amis novel Night Train, to unfurl in slippery and enjoyable fashion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2020

Out of Blue spends a bit more time than it should focusing on the realm of the multiverse, but that's only because it comes at the expense of the crackerjack mystery at its heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2020

[Patricia] Clarkson is a very talented actress who does the best with what she's given, but this movie's often-incoherent screenplay is the film's weakest link.

| Jul 11, 2020

Out of Blue could have been a detective story that leant into the clichés with reckless abandon and given its audience an interesting story, great performances and enough to keep them interested. Unfortunately, it fails on all accounts.

| Sep 11, 2019

An ambitious attempt at thought-provoking neo-noir that only results in a painfully slow and flavorless affair.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Sep 1, 2019

A sinewy and complex riff on the gumshoe thriller, the latest film from British director Carol Morley is her most ambitious and hypnotic to date.

| Aug 21, 2019

Although the stellar cast is more compelling than the story itself, the science fiction elements make director Carl Morley's Out of Blue a unique homicide puzzle to piece together.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2019

Out of Blue is a noir genre disaster and an unfortunate misfire for Patricia Clarkson

| Original Score: D | Apr 30, 2019

I just wasn't clear what it was I was supposed to be taking away from anything I had just watched.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 17, 2019

Like the dolorous heat of New Orleans, where the action takes place, the film's tone is too overbearing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

It's sufficiently varied and colourful to keep you watching, yet -- despite all that deep science -- the plot has no profound mysteries, just veiled contrivances.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2019

Viewers who like their mysteries to be solved, rather than merely mused upon, should prepare for bewilderment.

| Apr 1, 2019

It's a police procedural that aims to be something more than that by adding another ethereal dimension: it has a slow, dreamlike, unreal atmosphere that becomes irritatingly tedious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2019

When a film-maker aims this high, how can one do anything but watch in wonder?

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 31, 2019

There are moments when Carol Morley's fourth feature offers a fair approximation of early David Lynch or mid-period Nic Roeg

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2019

A glorious mess -- Clarkson is magnetic in a film over-stuffed with ideas. Still, the feeling of uneasiness I was left with is always worth seeking out in movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2019

Some gritty and evocative visual touches are overwhelmed by convoluted plotting in this muddled urban crime thriller.

| Mar 29, 2019

Even if some of the smart-arse tricks don't come off, Out of Blue is always stylish and often compelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2019