Review: Natalie Portman stays on course in the fascinatingly messy 'Lucy in the Sky'
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Oct 03, 2019
4 minutes
You can't fault "Lucy in the Sky" for false advertising, and not just because a cover of the Beatles song makes a late but inevitable appearance. When we first meet Lucy Cola (Natalie Portman), she is indeed hundreds of miles up, hovering alongside a NASA spacecraft as it orbits the Earth. She's nearing the end of her mission but doesn't want to leave ("Just a few more minutes," she murmurs to a colleague), and you can hardly blame her. Basking in the otherworldly silence as her home planet spreads out beneath her like a glowing radioactive carpet, Lucy is overwhelmed by wonderment and heartache, and also by a piercing
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