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‘The Midnight Sky’ Review: George Clooney Directs and Stars in an Epic But Sodden Dystopian Drama

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticNot every actor who tries his or her hand at directing has the chops to be a true filmmaker; in fact, very few do.

But George Clooney, in the early 2000s, took to directing as if born to it. His first effort, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002), had an early Charlie Kaufman script that Clooney staged with attitude and style, getting the audience to buy into a gonzo what-if?

biopic of Chuck Barris. Clooney’s sophomore effort, “Good Night, and Good Luck” (2005), vividly dramatized the war between the TV newsman Edward R.

Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, with Clooney using the black-and-white cinematography to make the 1950s broadcast-news world (and everyone in it) pop.

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