Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016)

A father goes on the run across the southern states with his young son, fleeing from both the cult that adopted the boy and the government, both parties after him for having supernatural powers. What these powers are and what the point of them is, is unfortunately never coherently explained - the boy claims to come from a higher dimension and variously makes satellites fall out of orbit and picks up encoded transmissions with light shooting out of his eyes. A decent cast of actors make a game attempt at emoting portentousness, and the arthouse feel likewise promises much, but it fails to deliver any satisfactory conclusion and ends up with an eruption of futuristic architecture from The Jetsons via Tomorrowland as the supposedly magical pay-off.

5/10