Dark Night Reviews
October 4, 2019
A matter-of-fact recapitulation, Dark Night isn't meant to entertain, but merely to convey, solemnly, the emptiness of contemporary connections.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
April 8, 2019
A lyrical American nightmare, although at times its pursuit of authenticity feels more like cinematic sleight of hand.
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| Original Score: 3.5
November 1, 2018
The movie is really lacking in an emotional punch to leave much of a lasting impact.
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| Original Score: 3/5
May 28, 2018
an anatomisation not so much of a real crime as of the sociopolitical circumstances that engender it.
February 25, 2018
Director Tim Sutton ... working in a sleepy Florida town, [reveals] a world where opportunity rarely knocks and everyone is either nursing old wounds or hustling for a ticket out.
September 6, 2017
[Dark Night] takes a macro approach to a disjointed society where guns are freely available and routinely glamorised.
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| Original Score: 4/5
August 29, 2017
Elliptical and elusive, Dark Night offers vignettes of five individuals' lives over the course of a day.
August 18, 2017
Occasionally too emblematic as individuals, the characters collectively mesh into a portrait of a dislocated society elevated by Sutton's talent for disorienting imagery.
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| Original Score: 4/5
August 17, 2017
An ambitious, relevant piece of filmmaking that promises to make you think.
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| Original Score: 3/5
August 10, 2017
A worthy - if chilly and difficult - addition to the sadly extensive filmography of American mass murder. The soundtrack from Canadian singer-songwriter Maica Armata adds some much-needed heart.
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| Original Score: 3/5
May 10, 2017
This isn't a film for everyone. It's incredibly dry. Almost mundane, at times... But these normal people find themselves in almost dreamlike surroundings thanks to Helene Louvart's beautiful cinematography.
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 24, 2017
The abstracted events transpire, occur, invoke, weighted neither by plot nor a psychological accounting: an atmospheric dream of everyday things, a dark dream of all our todays, lustrous dread.
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| Original Score: 8/10
February 20, 2017
Strange and unsettling ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 17, 2017
Dark Night is fascinated by the phenomena of domestic mass shootings, but it's less an act of investigation than one of imagination.
February 16, 2017
...haunting and - sometimes seemingly unintentionally - disturbing
February 8, 2017
Sutton's vision is unsettling and immersive, his technical precision immaculate.
February 3, 2017
A haunting, thought-provoking piece of work, made infinitely more powerful by all the things it chooses not to show.
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| Original Score: B+
February 3, 2017
Dark Night is as much about gloom as it is astonishment, to see the power of an act or an image to either turn someone into a killer or to inspire them toward empathy.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
February 3, 2017
A contemporary look at the disaffection and desensitization that have long been native to American suburbia.
February 2, 2017
[Sutton] has a poet's vision, rendering familiar American nowheres into dreamscapes.