In My Sleep Reviews
BrianOrndorf.com
Little screen finesse to support Wolf's aspirations, leaving behind an ambitious but inept production that has difficulty maintaining chills, thrills, and, well, camera focus.
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| Original Score: D
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Hideous-looking, poorly acted, nonsensical and a waste of actor Tony Hale (Buster from "Arrested Development"), "In My Sleep" could turn you into a sleepmoviegoer.
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| Original Score: 0/4
Top Critic
Shared Darkness
For a while pulls levers of dramatic engagement competently if never rivetingly, but unravels into a labyrinthine tangle of soap-y contrivance and improbably centralized conflict.
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| Original Score: C
Meant to be Hitchcockian -- the writer and director, Allen Wolf, more or less says so in his director's statement -- and maybe it is, if you think of it as, say, Hitchcock's senior project for film school.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Did a hunky LA massage ther apist kill someone in their sleep? Perhaps the biggest problem with Allen Wolf's drowsy thriller In My Sleep is managing to stay awake long enough to find out.
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| Original Score: 1/4
All the labored explanations (and tedious psychology) that follow the bad behavior and bloodshed make for a serious buzzkill.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Writer-director Allen Wolf loads In My Sleep with so much psychosexual baggage you wish he just focused on one emotional affliction to propel this mediocre whodunit.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Aspires to the noble tradition of L.A. film noir, but boasts all the cerebral and aesthetic restraint of a West Hollywood dance club.
L.A. Weekly
The biggest problem with Allen Wolf's thriller is that there are so few characters, it's immediately clear what's going on; there's simply no one to suspect besides the obvious.
Hollywood & Fine
An overstuffed Lifetime movie, if that network for women ever made movies about nice guys who happen to be sex-addicted murder suspects with a sleep disorder.
A well-stirred titillation that will appeal to twentysomething audiences and movie-buff viewers who appreciate the pursued-pursuer, Hitchcockian style of suspenser.
Boxoffice Magazine
Melrose Place meets imitation Hitchcock.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Slant Magazine
Spectacularly witless, In My Sleep is another depressing reminder of what happens when you give cameras to jocks.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
