George Clooney's latest is a boring mess by Graham Hillard Print this article In days of yore, when “opening night” meant something other than a movie’s initial arrival in one’s Netflix queue, I would have gotten dressed and driven into town to see The Midnight Sky, a new sci-fi thriller based on the novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. On Christmas Eve, I merely pressed a button. Though the latter feels dismayingly incommensurate to the exertion required to create large-scale feature films, it represents the exact amount of effort one should expend in pursuit of the streaming giant’s latest stinker.