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Midnight Sun

2017

Scott Speer

Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Quinn Shephard, Tiera Skovbye ...

5.6

1,374

Romance. Drama Based on the Japanese film, Midnight Sun centers on Katie, a 17-year-old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Exploiting XP [xeroderma pigmentosum] for the sake of cheap catharsis (...) It offers audiences such an unrealistic portrait of romance"	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"'Midnight Sun' is emotionally manipulative and not nearly as profound as it thinks it is. But you'd have to be made of stone to entirely resist it."	NEU
United States	Katie Walsh Detroit News	"No spark (...) The sick teen genre is never lacking in sentimentality, and 'Midnight Sun' is dripping with it. The film never holds back on the melodrama either"	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A bland, familiar tear-jerker (...) Without empathetic performances or a script that makes a lick of sense"	NEG
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"The plot of 'Midnight Sun' is basically just a Cinderella story (...) In a movie like this, jobs are only meant to show that characters are 'authentic' (...) Straightforward and trite"	NEG
Canada	Brad Wheeler The Globe and Mail	"A movie that should never see the light of day (...) The relationship is doomed, and so are the viewers"	NEG

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