The heavens keep splitting to deliver forked tinsel masquerading as sci-fi lightning.

Nichols does so many things so well, and all at once, that it sort of takes your breath away.

There is an adrenaline-fueled elasticity to events that is as smooth as it is exhilarating, all of it given extra potency thanks to the emotional complexities driving things to their conclusion.

Jeff Nichols' 'Midnight Special' feels like some recently discovered '80s B-movie. Purring with metaphysical musings and its own cryptic internal mythology, the sci-fi chase movie asks more questions than it answers.