In a just world, Moon would have led to an Oscar nomination for Rockwell.
Get ready for one hell of a solo. Sam Rockwell is incredible as a scientist riding out a three-year assignment on a lunar mining outpost all by himself. The forced isolation is making him slowly lose his marbles. With thematic nods to both the snowed-in claustrophobia of The Shining and the soothing, emotionless computerized companionship of HAL from 2001, Duncan Jones’s directorial debut is a spellbinding one-hander that saves its best surprise for the end. In a just world, Moon would have led to an Oscar nomination for Rockwell.