There’s beauty in it—Boyle and his team make a near-religious experience of getting up close and personal with the center of our solar system, buoyed by an effervescent score by John Murphy and British techno group Underworld.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2025

Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland carefully seed the early part of the story with hints of the terrors to come.

Full Review | Jun 20, 2025

The reteaming of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (28 Days Later) delivers an awe-inspiring, gorgeous film with an unexpected genre shift.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2024

Boyle's incredible visuals are complemented by his deep bench of international actors. And while the last act initially feels jarring in tone and subject, on subsequent viewings the foundation for Pinbacker and sun madness is present throughout

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2024

Sunshine is a film that is hit or miss and while your mileage may vary, one cannot deny the cinematic ambition of it all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 4, 2022

Seems to linger in the realm of horror at the most inappropriate times, while also stifling the sense of adventure at equally inopportune moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Sunshine works on every level it strives for. If you come into the film looking for a thrill ride, the chances are good that you will be watching tensely with nothing less than the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Full Review | Apr 10, 2020

Sunshine simply sizzles.

Full Review | Nov 15, 2019

The human interaction and tension works, how every single member can be sacrificed for the larger good of the humankind. But the acting is uniformly dull, the cast is deadpan, poker-faced and robotic at best.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2019

[Sunshine] delivers the visually incarnate truth of the universe's mysticism.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2017

In an age of technical advancements when filmmakers have circumvented ideas for synthetic visual thrills, here is a movie that plays like some decisive, brilliant rebellion to that pattern.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 6, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Don't pack a tube of SPF 50 to the theater; bring a can of Jolt or a double espresso.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2011

"Sunshine's" mostly cerebral adventure into unquantifiable science and human nature makes its huh-what conclusion more forgivable. Loopy as it gets, once the Icarus II sets a course for the heart of the sun, "Sunshine" becomes a head-trip and a half.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 16, 2010

Sunshine is a fantastically enjoyable film that works our minds, delights our senses and shows that futuristic science fiction can be serious drama rather than mere popcorn fodder.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Garland and Boyle are nothing if not ambitious. They want us to consider the Big Questions about the importance of mankind as well as science versus fundamentalism.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2010

A barely noticeable eclipse next to the poetry of Woman in the Moon and Mission to Mars

Full Review | Aug 27, 2009

Leaves a lot to be desired from the standpoint of plot, character development and scientific credibility.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 19, 2009

Nothing anyone does makes much sense, but gad, is it ever gorgeous.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008