If Midnight Special was your typical popcorn sci-fi, it would do far more explaining. Who Alton is, which characters have his best interests in mind, who the bad guys are and what their evil plan ...

Ultimately, “Midnight Special” degenerates into a situation in which three people (Shannon, along with Kirsten Dunst as the mother, and Joel Edgerton as the best friend) are driving around ...

“The Midnight Special” was part of a mini-wave of late-night rock-music TV shows in the early 1970s that also included ABC’s “In Concert” and the syndicated “Don Kirshner’s Rock ...

“Midnight Special” is an old-school, sci-fi thriller, its special effects doled out sparingly in the story of a young boy with inexplicable powers and the adults who are, variously, trying to ...

'Midnight Special," from writer-director Jeff Nichols, evinces the same knack for melding realism and fantasy that the filmmaker brought to his breakout 2011 film "Take Shelter." In that film ...

“Midnight Special”C-Rated PG-13. At AMC Loews Boston Common, Kendall Square Cinema and Coolidge Corner Theatre. Writer-director Jeff Nichols’ “Midnight Special” … ...

Warner Bros. moonlighted on the Specialty side this weekend with Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi drama Midnight Special taking its bow in style. Starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton and Kirsten Dunst ...

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More than that, Nichols’ faith in his script and understanding of the mechanics of story allow us to enjoy “Midnight Special’s” intentional mysteries, to take pleasure in being pulled ...

Watch a film clip from "Midnight Special," starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton and Jaeden Lieberher. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures “Midnight Special,” a beautifully strange and stirring sci ...