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Sunshine

2007

Danny Boyle

Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne ...

6.0

24,407

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Adventure. Mystery Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven years earlier. Soon the crew is fighting not ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[Boyle] is wickedly good at making you jump and squirm in your seat, which he does often in 'Sunshine'"	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"On a visceral level, no other film I've seen has made such a palpable on-screen presence of the sun's deadly heat and blinding light (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"Like a collapsing star, 'Sunshine' initially burns brightly but finally implodes into a dramatic black hole"	NEG
United Kingdom	Mark Kermode The Guardian	"'Sunshine' boasts extraordinary computer graphic imagery so luminescent you feel you could get sunburn just watching the film"	POS
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"As narrative, 'Sunshine' is exhausting and unsatisfying, with too many obvious plot flaws and too much about its crew and story left unexplored. But as a pure cinematic experience, it's exhilaratingly, brutally beautiful"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Science-fiction fans will like it, and also brainiacs, and those who sometimes look at the sky and think, man, there's a lot going on up there (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"It’s a shame that a film that starts out with such a beautifully constructed story (...) should lose it so completely in the last act"	NEU
United Kingdom	Olly Richards Empire	"This is a knuckle-gnawingly tense, glorious action thriller and marks yet another genre nailed by Danny Boyle (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"[It] is near-classic modern science fiction (...) The film works even if you don't buy certain aspects of the story (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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