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The Vast of Night engrossed me from start to finish, even if a couple of the filmmaking choices confused me. There are some delicious oners in the first half; funny how we make such a deal over oners when actors have been doing oners since before movies existed, on the stage, night after night. I disagree with the Spielberg-citing review quote but understand why the marketing team used it. There’s one element in particular—an aspect of Billy’s identity and the impact it had on his not being listened to—that really some filmmaker should run with all on its own. (Not in the sense of another story in this world; just the premise of why he and others were chosen for the work that they did.) One thing to be prepared for: it is a very dark movie, in a literal cinematographic sense; best watched with the lights out.