…films like Danielle Gardner’s “Out of the Clear Blue Sky” are a kind of Tolstoyan reminder that all tragedies are unique. In telling the story of the near-decimation of the bond-trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald in the attacks on the World Trade Center, Gardner — whose brother Doug was among those lost — doesn’t just stick to an arc of horror, mourning, and some limited sense of rebirth. She also digs into some of the more terribly unique aspects of what happened to Cantor… It’s an incredible tale of how that came together, and Gardner crafts it with no faked drama.
Film Journal International