Synopsis
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
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Cast
- Natalie PortmanLucy Cola
- Jon HammMark Goodwin
- Zazie BeetzErin Eccles
- Dan StevensDrew Cola
- Ellen BurstynNana Holbrook
- Colman DomingoFrank Paxton
- Nick OffermanWill Plimpton
- Tig NotaroKate Mounier
- Pearl Amanda DicksonBlue Iris
- Jeffrey DonovanJim Hunt
Recommendations
- 60
The Guardian
It is a witty, intriguing film in many ways ... But I also feel the film is unsure of how much to disturb its audience, unsure whether to pursue the chaos and embarrassment of a bungled, noir-ish crime and an unsightly psychological disorder, or to contrive something more emollient: to finesse some sympathy and even heroism for the story’s troubled female lead. - 60
IGN
Natalie Portman excels in Lucy in the Sky, an interesting character study that suffers when mixing fact and fiction. - 50
The A.V. Club
Lucy In The Sky ends up playing like some unauthorized Jackie Jormp-Jomp version of the Lisa Nowak story, as though they couldn’t get the rights to the names, or to the shit. - 42
IndieWire
As narrow as the universe is wide, this dull, sanitized dramatization of history’s tawdriest astronaut scandal has absolutely no idea how touching the heavens might transform a person — it only knows that it does. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Lucy in the Sky is the odd film that starts cosmically big and gradually becomes narrower and more conventional as it goes along, to diminishing returns. - 40
Screen Daily
Lucy In The Sky has ambitious visual flourishes, a bold performance from Natalie Portman and not nearly enough insights into the peculiarities of human behaviour. - 33
The Playlist
A wildly misbegotten mess, a goulash of incongruent tones and unclear motives. - 30
Variety
Distractingly over-directed ... [Hawley] triple-knots his own shoelaces here, stumbling over cumbersome metaphors (butterflies, floating) and high-concept solutions to straightforward dramatic problems when he should have just entrusted his leading lady to carry the narrative.
