Sentences with phrase «midnight special feels»

There's technical verve a-plenty, and evidence that Nichols will continue to grow with his future projects, but Midnight Special feels more like a fun time at the movies that should have been an otherworldly blast.

Nichols isn't a director who tends to indulge in grand, melodramatic moments; even Midnight Special feels restrained compared to the Amblin films that obviously inspired it.

Not exact matches

So I talked about the connections to the 50th anniversary special but did anyone else feel like there was a connection to the Tennant - era episode, Midnight — the thing banging outside the door but that possessed people?

The Duffer brothers» «Stranger Things» on Netflix and the Jeff Nichols» film «Midnight Special» both call back to a specific attitude and time in pop culture (and in fact, it's the same time for both of them), but they manage to do so masterfully enough that it feels both like going back to something familiar while moving forward into unexplored territory.

I will admit that I feel Nichols» Take Shelter, Mud and Midnight Special are slightly better films overall, but Loving is still up there with them.

Midnight Special, the fourth film from popular indie director Jeff Nichols, feels like the offspring of Steven Spielberg's two scifi classics, E.T..

Now, it would've been more than 5 had I not felt too disappointed (Midnight Special) or indifferent (Soy Nero) towards many of the films I saw (some of which were so horrendous and inconsequential, they didn't even call for coverage)-- but these are things you can not predict when it comes to festivals.