The human interaction and tension works, how every single member can be sacrificed for the larger good of the humankind. But the acting is uniformly dull, the cast is deadpan, poker-faced and robotic at best.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2019

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The picture would be nothing, an incomplete Venn diagram, without Murphy.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2007

Cluttered storytelling undermines Sunshine.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 27, 2007

On sci-fi's crowded table Boyle serves a fresh feast for our eyes, minds and hearts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 27, 2007

Sunshine, if a fireball, is one that warns us yet again of the danger of flying too close to the sun.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2007

For Mr. Boyle, a Swiss Army knife of a filmmaker, there's always something new.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 27, 2007

Problems arise in the film's third act...and the film doesn't recover.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 27, 2007

The first two thirds are really something special.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2007

Other movies may explore the depths of outer space. This movie explores the shallows.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 26, 2007

At a certain point, like a dying star about to pop into eternal nothingness, the movie can't be seen as anything -- it just implodes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 26, 2007

Not as good as you'd expect, but with Boyle expectations are almost unfairly high.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 26, 2007

Beam yourselves aboard Sunshine, set 50 years in the future. The voyage works, beautifully.

| Jul 26, 2007

A sometimes dazzling, but ultimately disappointing futuristic mind-game.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2007

The film is nonsense, and what counts is whether viewers will feel able to lay aside their logical complaints and bask in what remains: a trip in search of a tan.

| Jul 23, 2007

Boyle gives us sci-fi razzle-dazzle and some undeniably powerful images, but as effective as it is for an hour or so, Sunshine ultimately settles for puzzling more than mysterious.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 23, 2007

While the final result isn't entirely cloud-free, there's still enough silver lining to make this trip to the sun worthwhile.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2007

A gorgeously crafted intergalactic saga sorely lacking in originality or profundity.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2007

As a pure cinematic experience, it's exhilaratingly, brutally beautiful.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 20, 2007