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The world seems to be working through its pandemic anxiety via Hollywood, with a series of apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic films that tackle the end of the world, or the world after the end of the world, or a world that’s about to end, but doesn’t… you get the idea.

Some of these are just reworkings of the standard tropes that typically characterise a disaster film (See Gerard Butler’s latest offering), but every now and again, something comes along that kicks things up a notch.

George Clooney’s new film, The Midnight Sky, seems to be doing just that.

Clooney stars in and directs the film, which is an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s acclaimed novel, Good Morning, Midnight.

It follows Augustine (George Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to Earth, where a mysterious global catastrophe has taken place.

You’ll also notice Clooney is rocking a serious beard, which is deemed very important by a number of media outlets.

Here’s how Collider describes it:

The Midnight Sky looks incredibly bleak, but also kind of honest and refreshing in a way that we might really need come this December. Perhaps people will be in no mood for a post-apocalyptic drama, but I’m still eager to see what Clooney does, especially when he has such a terrific cast of co-stars.

Check it out:

You won’t have to risk a trip to the cinema to take this one in.

It’s coming to Netflix on December 23.

[source:collider]