'The Vast of Night'—about two teens stumbling across an alien invasion—is an instant sci-fi stunner, says Peter Travers. Our review
Things begin innocently enough at a high school basketball game with the crowd still cheering as local radio personality Everett “The Maverick” Sloane and adoring student fan Fay — in period-ready ponytail and cat-eye glasses — head off to their nighttime gigs. He’s a chainsmoking DJ and she’s a science geek who works the night shift in the town of Cayuga, pop: 492.
Everett and Fay, tech nerds before anyone used the term, set out to investigate as cinematographer M.I. Littin-Menz follows in their wake. The movie ingeniously frames their activities as an episode of a fictional TV show called “Paradox Theater,” which lacks only Rod Serling as the narrator who intones: “You are entering a realm between clandestine and forgotten.” Even better, Patterson devotes a mesmerizing 10 minutes to watching Fay manage her switchboard as her sense of unease grows .
Someone does. The screen goes dark as we listen to an audio transmission from Billy , a disabled African-American vet who was part of a covert UFO military operation that exposed its racism and sexism by employing persons of color and women —all the better to achieve plausible deniability if its secrets were breached. There is also a call from Mabel Blanche , a senior who says that the mystery transmission goes back further than anyone first thought. Much, much further.
An Oklahoman who got his start shooting local commercials and promos for his hometown basketball team , Patterson has a visual flair that will take him far. And when he works his magic to the hypnotic strains of the score by Jared Bulmer and Erick Alexander, you can feel yourself being swept away by a young filmmaker full of promise. His tale of Cold War paranoia speaks to deep fears we’re all experiencing in these uncertain times.
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