Lucy in the Sky

"It's not that Lucy in the Sky is boring - quite the opposite, in fact - yet it does feel like a story that would have been told much better by a female director, or at the very least, a female writer."

"But even when we don't know what the hell Lucy is doing, Portman makes her certainty a blast."

"How to end this story and reclaim its leading player without simply writing off Lucy as a pathetic clinical case? The film doesn't quite solve this problem, but it's an amusing, disquieting footnote to the triumphant story of space travel."

"A film that initially seemed to be aiming in the direction of a female-oriented companion piece to the presently arriving Ad Astra instead contents itself to live in the normal world of sexual jealousies and revenge."

"Hawley [is] a gifted visual storyteller who triple-knots his own shoelaces here, stumbling over cumbersome metaphors... when he should have just entrusted his leading lady to carry the narrative."

"Noah Hawley's movie never evolves past its interesting concept and its climax feels a bit exploitative."