Your Movie Library
Cast
- Michael ShannonRoy Tomlin
- Jaeden MartellAlton Meyer
- Joel EdgertonLucas
- Kirsten DunstSarah Tomlin
- Adam DriverAgent Sevier
- David JensenElden
- Sam ShepardCalvin Meyer
- Scott HazeLevi
- Dana GourrierSharon Davison
- Paul SparksAgent Miller
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Midnight Special confirms Nichols' uncommon knack for breathing dramatic integrity and emotional depth into genre material. - 100
Variety
Nichols’ impressively restrained yet limitlessly imaginative fourth feature takes its energy from an ensemble of characters who hold fast to their convictions, even though their beliefs remain shrouded in mystery for much of the journey. - 83
The Playlist
Structured as a low-key chase movie, unfolding with the dark urgency of a conspiracy thriller, living mostly not in your heart or even your mind but in the hairs on the back of your neck, "Midnight Special" actually emerges most resonantly as an almost mournful ode, or maybe a psalm, to the primal instincts of fatherhood. - 83
The Verge
The film moves effortlessly, with plenty of tense thrills and surprise reveals. It’s relentless, but rarely rushed. The action is terse, and in one unexpected case, breathless and terrifying. - 80
The Telegraph
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. - 80
Screen Daily
As with all its cinematic precedents, there’s a race to a destination, many people involved, and at times the going can be uneven. The payoff, though, is worth it. - 75
Consequence
Only in its final stretch does Midnight Special start to lose its distinct identity. - 70
Village Voice
Nichols has a light touch when it comes to genre, which is Midnight Special's great blessing and curse.
