Sunshine Wins Critical Acclaim

Check out recent SUNSHINE reviews:

"[T]his is a knuckle-gnawingly tense, glorious action thriller and marks yet another genre nailed by Danny Boyle."

-- Olly Richards of Empire Magazine

"Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that seeks to break free of parochialism and think about where and why and what we are without the language of religion."

-- Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian

"Expertly drawn tension is intensified by flash frames, distorted imagery and frozen motion that suggest cinematically not only the characters’ psychological breaks but the warping of space and time. From detailed production design by Mark Tildesley to state-of-the-art special effects, Sunshine achieves a level of credibility that, while still taking some poetic license, allows the viewer to appreciate not only the filmmakers’ craft but their ideas."

-- Annlee Ellingson of Boxoffice Magazine

"[Director Danny Boyle] fills [Sunshine] with images of the eye -- both literal and symbolic -- staring in horrified wonder at vistas beyond our ken. He then contrasts those images with the very object our sight requires to function: the sun. Its light makes vision possible, and yet if we stare directly at it, we'll go blind. So too does its warmth and heat create life on Earth while simultaneously holding the raw power to destroy it all in a heartbeat. Sunshine transforms that two-edged sword into a first-rate science-fiction thriller."

-- Rob Vaux of the Flipside Movie Emporium

"'Sunshine' is an extraordinary film, operating simultaneously at visceral, psychological and spiritual levels as it takes us on a voyage into space with the fate of mankind at stake."

-- Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter

"[T]he pieces come together in this brooding odyssey with a bang. Sunshine is another thinking-person's thriller from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, also co-pilots on 28 Days Later."

-- Lisa Schwarzbaum of EntertainmentWeekly.com

"The CGI sun, seen through the filtered glass of the ship’s observation deck or shooting over the edge of the heat shield, is a blast of glorious, almost supernatural light."

-- Jurgen Fauth of About.com

"Thankfully, Boyle’s movie avoids getting crushed by its own weighty intellectual ambitions; Sunshine’s best scenes, both of which involve characters embracing the divine ecstasy of oblivion, balance cerebral leanings with expert shocks to the nervous system."

-- David Fear of Time Out New York

"Like the films it grandly and unabashedly pays homage to, Sunshine is serious science fiction for those who prefer to think of space's real possibilities rather than escapist fantasies.

-- Gabriel Shanks of Mixed Reviews