Storyline
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Directors
Cast
Sam Shepard, David Jensen, Joel Edgerton, Maureen Brennan, Dane Rhodes, Yvonne Landry, Michael Shannon, Wayne Pére, Adam Driver, Sharon Landry, James DuMont, Billy Slaughter, James Moses Black, Sean Kaplan, Kirsten Dunst, Kerry Cahill, Bill Camp, John L. Armijo, Garrett Hines, Dana Gourrier, Lucy Faust, Paul Sparks, Scott Haze, Sean Bridgers, Sam Malone, Jaeden Lieberher, D'Arcy Allen, Ann Mahoney, Nancy Grace, Nicondra Norwood, Sharon Garrison, Alexander Eldimiati, Allison King, Lee Zurik, Lynn Berry, Michelle Benet
Trailer
Reviews
100
Midnight Special confirms Nichols' uncommon knack for breathing dramatic integrity and emotional depth into genre material.
100
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
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 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 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.
