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Natalie Portman, Lucy in the Sky

This astronaut drama sees Portman once again employ bold choices and strong accent work in service to a movie that never takes off. Making his feature debut, TV auteur Noah Hawley throws all sorts of shifting aspect ratios and stylistic flourishes into the mix, but the overall effect is leaving critics cold. “One is reminded that what passes for visionary direction on the small screen might not look quite as revelatory on the big one,” sniffs The A.V. Club’s A.A. Dowd. In truth, this movie may have been doomed from the moment Hawley decided to cut the most memorable element from the real-life story it’s based on. There should be more horses, more cameras, more diapers!