Midnight Special

"Impressively restrained yet limitlessly imaginative..."

"Taken as a throwback to the thrillers of Carpenter and Spielberg’s cinema of wonder, it is special indeed."

"Little here feels like science or fiction but sci-fi is exactly what this is, from the heart and out of this world."

"The most haunting part of this riskily earnest film isn’t the unmentionable effects coup of its grand finale, but the quieter beats, all in close-up, that comprise its coda: atomised, spent, and sad."

"There’s an absence of fun here, and for what is ultimately a chase movie, a severe lack of pace."

"Confirms Nichols' uncommon knack for breathing dramatic integrity and emotional depth into genre material."

"The film’s strength is in its humanity rather than its super-humanity."