Shadow in the Cloud

    Shadow in the Cloud
    2020

    Synopsis

    A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

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    Cast

    • Chloë Grace MoretzMaude Garrett
    • Nick RobinsonStu Beckell
    • Beulah KoaleAnton Williams
    • Taylor John SmithWalter Quaid
    • Callan MulveyJohn Reeves
    • Benedict WallTommy Dorn
    • Byron CollTerrence Taggart
    • Joe WitkowskiBradley Finch
    • Liam LeggeBaby
    • Asher BridleBaby

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Variety

      Hardly a minute of the movie registers as “realistic,” but that hardly matters, since Liang so fully commits to its over-the-top sensibility that you’ll be clutching the armrest and grinning with glee for most of the ride.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      This ride is much more fun when you know nothing about it going in.
    • 75

      The A.V. Club

      Pure popcorn entertainment, superimposing the dynamic synths and narrative efficiency of a John Carpenter movie onto the burnished metal and green fatigues of a World War II adventure.
    • 75

      IndieWire

      Part creature feature, part war-is-hell nightmare, and entirely dedicated to cutting down the misogynist jerks who populate it, there’s enough giddy fun to power Shadow in the Cloud through just about anything.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      A sufficiently motivated woman is a fearsome and unstoppable force: the central premise for this gleefully pulpy WWII horror puts a dash of feminist fury into a schlocky B movie set-up.
    • 70

      Arizona Republic

      It's never less than edge-of-your-seat fun.
    • 60

      Film Threat

      In surer hands, Shadow in the Cloud could have been a demented allegory about female empowerment; instead, it’s just demented, albeit damn entertaining. Here’s hoping Landis gets his head out of the clouds and writes something that casts lingering shadows next time.
    • 58

      The Film Stage

      Those who enjoy a good hoot and holler with a midnight crowd will surely revel in it while those who don’t will roll their eyes and wonder what’s happening since the reveal of Maude’s mission does become way too heavy-handed for its melodrama to rise above the hollow action trappings.