Splintered as the story is between its two extreme settings, The Midnight Sky is an enjoyable Friday-night viewing experience, but misses the potential to expand on its themes of isolation and optimism in a memorable way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2024

If you can overlook certain clichés and the hokey narrative device, THE MIDNIGHT SKY is a thoroughly engaging post-apocalyptic sci-fi film. It may not do anything particularly new with the genre, but it doesn’t need to.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2024

While the film isn’t a total loss based on these areas, the lack of a convincing narrative and a connection to the characters makes for a tough sit.

| Original Score: D | May 2, 2023

Netflix’s The Midnight Sky doesn’t quite border on humdrum, but lands on ambivalent.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2022

“The Midnight Sky” is destined to be a divisive movie. For some it will be emotionally cathartic and fitting for a year like 2020. Others will find it to be shallow, derivative and lacking its own identity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Haven't felt such unease over an end-of-our-world depiction since Melancholia (2011) by Lars von Trier. That said, The Midnight Sky suffers from an overaccumulation of narrative threads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2022

Despite intriguing concepts concerning stranded humans battling the elements to survive in an empty world, none of these explorations are given enough nuance to make them feel innovative.

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

The Midnight Sky takes a long time to do very little, squandering its Netflix millions on something that doesnt know if its a blockbuster or an arthouse film, and ends up with the worst qualities of both.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2022

Competently made and boasting a terrific cast, The Midnight Sky is watchable but instantly leaves the mind.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2022

Contemplative? Soul-searching? Or just indulgent and dull?

| Sep 13, 2021

As a director, Clooney is able to summon moments of overpowering wonder...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2021

The whole thing is bland as white bread, which [could be] an assessment that might ultimately be the connective through line across Clooney's underwhelming directorial oeuvre.

| Jun 5, 2021

However, underneath all the shiny visuals and lip service to concepts that other modern sci-fi epics have handled with more finesse, this flick is remarkably shallow in its execution.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 29, 2021

Risible as it all is, Clooney is begging to be taken seriously.

| Mar 23, 2021

George Clooney's "The Midnight Sky," like "Monuments Men" before it - chokes on a combination concept and a casting slam dunk.

| Mar 9, 2021

As the movie's focal point, Clooney is as soulful and grizzled as he's ever been. As a filmmaker, he certainly gifts himself the feature's best moments.

| Mar 9, 2021

Aside from Clooney looking like Lee Marvin, there's nothing interesting or all that memorable about his portrayal of a man full of regrets.

| Original Score: C | Feb 17, 2021

The thoughtful, if sorrowful, post-apocalyptic drama - an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton's 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight - pulls you in and keeps you invested in its parallel stories set on earth and in space.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Feb 14, 2021

The Midnight Sky doesn't have the execution to match its shoot-for-the-stars ambition. A frustrating and lethargic missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Clooney uses silence to speak loudly about the film's most timely and important theme, the need for connection. It's the lesson of the film and, these days, in real life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021