Jeff Nichols heard the critics, and recently had an interesting take on why he believes Midnight Special is the “least well-executed” of all his movies.
So the summer I wrote Midnight Special I was writing with a chip on my shoulder.
Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special was pretty polarizing when it hit theaters last year — those who loved really loved it, and those who didn’t were various degrees of disappointed with the ending.
In a new roundtable interview from GQ, Nichols talks a bit about what went into making Midnight Special and how important it is not to let the critics get the best of you.