Starring: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Jaeden Lieberher, Adam Driver, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Shepard, Bill Camp
Directed By: Jeff Nichols
Sometimes, when you make a sci-fi film that asks a lot of questions, and you don’t answer them… you haven’t really made a good movie. I was looking forward to finally watching Midnight Special. I thought it would be a pleasant surprise indie like Ex Machina. It’s not.
Midnight Special is an incredibly dark film, shot almost entirely at night, which is appropriate because the film keeps us in the dark about so much. There’s a boy (Lieberher) ...