A Midnight Clear

The sentiments aren`t fresh, but the skill of the writing and a superior ensemble American cast makes the drama memorable.

A Midnight Clear doesn't do as much as it might with its characters. But as a parable of human folly and fragile hope, it has considerable impact.

[Gordon] clearly relishes the story's many ironies, and he's often successful at sharing his enjoyment of them with us.

It's so determined to be haunting that it gives up the ghost.

A Midnight Clear -- not quite a great war movie but certainly a sensitive, bright and supremely moral one -- shows how courage itself can be a kind of insanity.

Despite such peculiarities, or perhaps because of them, A Midnight Clear has a quirky, haunting quality, delivering good performances all around, but especially from Sinise, Hawke and Frank Whaley.

A Midnight Clear is a beautifully written, directed and acted movie, but it is so gut-wrenching, so taut, that it is more catharsis than entertainment.

This film about a real incident that occurred near the end of World War II is involving, always focused and affectingly acted.

A powerful tragedy full of surprises and visual style.

Keith Gordon's adap of William Wharton's novel is low on action, long on mood and psychological complexity.

Much of it has a seriousness and intelligence that are all too rare on today's movie scene.

"In combat, confusion is normal," an Army manual helpfully pointed out in World War II. That same confusion seems to have infected A Midnight Clear.