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By Michael Smith (475) for Tulsa World (603) on 06 Apr 2016

This is lo-fi sci-fi with an emphasis on personal storytelling…

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By Tom Meek (408) for Cambridge Day (227) on 06 Apr 2016

The one sure thing Nichols has to bank on is Shannon's burning intensity. The determination etched on the actor's steely face never wanes…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 06 Apr 2016

The shortcomings of Nicholls's movie help throw into sharp relief exactly what it was that Spielberg got so right…

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By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 06 Apr 2016

Nichols is the kind of director who favours the slow burn over the instant payoff, meaning that the high-tension, low-drama manner in which…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 06 Apr 2016

Eventually, Nichols fills in enough details to make for a satisfying climax, while leaving things vague enough not to undermine the earlier ambiguity…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 06 Apr 2016

After laboriously creating the paranoid world of the Ranch in the film's strong first hour, Nichols never returns to it…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 05 Apr 2016

It’s an absolutely chilling road picture, filled with tension, dread and a threat of violence…

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By Rob Hunter (276) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 05 Apr 2016

It introduces us to a boy we're told is meant for something great, but instead it's greatness that the film leaves behind…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 05 Apr 2016

lightly touches on many familiar genres without indulging in the clichés of any of them…

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By Rob Carnevale (227) for Indie London (156) on 05 Apr 2016

Serving as both a tribute to 80s sci-fi classics Starman and Close Encounters of The Third Kind and an intimate father-son tale, this touches…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for WOW247 (106) on 05 Apr 2016

This gripping and engaging sci-fi chase thriller plays like vintage Spielberg filtered through slow-burning, arthouse sensibilities…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Spliced Personality (175) on 04 Apr 2016

The slow-drip plot mechanics lead us to assume that all our questions will eventually be answered, but what makes Midnight Special so damn…

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By Jamie Graham (285) for Total Film (3,532) on 03 Apr 2016

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

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By Dan Jolin (289) for Empire (3,446) on 03 Apr 2016

Nichols mounts impressive visual effects and frantic bursts of action.... But the film’s strength is in its humanity rather than its super-humanity…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 03 Apr 2016

As other worlds reveal themselves, what started with a gripping premise slackens and goes limp…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Apr 2016

Midnight Special is a sincere movie, but sometimes sincerity is half the problem…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for The List (2,018) on 03 Apr 2016

Once the narrative slows, the whole thing unravels completely, and when one character asks, weakly, 'Can we go back to Texas now…

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By Michael Fairbanks (50) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 01 Apr 2016

a deeply engrossing sci-fi alternative to those a little exhausted with every such film being a $200 million behemoth…

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By David Blaustein (150) for ABC News Radio (149) on 31 Mar 2016

The simple, modest-budget, indie sci-fi look and feel of Midnight Special is certainly part of its appeal, but that's hardly what defines writer-director…

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By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 31 Mar 2016

When the scope of Midnight Special gets bigger, it falters…

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