Midnight Special review

A man and his extraordinary son flee across America to a fateful meeting.

Jeff Nichols is one of the most interesting filmmakers working today, despite only releasing four features over the last eight years. He’s done intense drama in Shotgun stories, genre-tinged thriller in Take Shelter and coming of age poetry in Mud, and now he has his first studio film in Midnight Special.

I was somewhat worried about the move to working with a major studio like Warner Bros and there are signs that the transition wasn’t easy for the writer/director, but the film is still well worth seeking out for sci-fi fans.