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Day Night Day Night

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Julia Loktev
Directed by: Julia Loktev
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 9, 2007
Running Time: 94 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Germany / France
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Luisa Williams, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi, Tschi Hun Kim, Annemarie Lawless, and Frank Dattolo
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. (IFC First Take)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Village Voice J. Hoberman
Terror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating movie.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
The film is, in fact, a cunning exercise in subjectivity and withheld information--and once you accept those parameters, it’s riveting.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Offers a chillingly effective look at the ease with which a suicide bomber could wreak havoc on U.S. soil - specifically in Times Square.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Why has She chosen to end her young life with a senseless act of mass murder? We never find out - which is a good thing. Too much information would only get in the way and lessen this compelling film's evocation of dread.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
In the end, despite Williams' extraordinary, nearly wordless performance, it's impossible to fathom what this young woman is experiencing at her moment of crisis, because we never knew what could have brought her to such a desperate pass in the first place.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Howie Movshovitz
Shows tremendous control and discipline, especially for a young filmmaker on her first feature. Director Julia Loktev might be working on a profoundly low budget, but her camera work and lighting are precise and imaginative.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
Context and psychological insight are the major casualties of Day Night Day Night, a dramatically limited but strangely powerful portrait of a young would-be terrorist.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Richard M. Porton
Unlike the Dardennes or the best practitioners of political cinema, Loktev possesses almost zero political acumen, and her film ends up resembling nothing more than a well-calibrated performance piece, as vacuous as its confused protagonist.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Loktev's efforts to universalize this story by avoiding specifics ends up making Day Night Day Night broad and blank, reducing the lead character to one more generic nutcase for us to fear and pity.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times John Anderson
The most profound thing the remarkably dread-filled drama Day Night Day Night tells us is what it doesn't tell us.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
The movie charts a journey from belief to despair with occasional touches of humor, but by the end I was so deadened by its minimalist style and method, I could barely summon the energy to ask why.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Linda L. gave it a3:
The comparison with "Blair Witch Project" is inspired! All our Islamic (?) heroine needed was a runny nose. We don't know anything about the young woman who's the lead, except that she feels she's making a worthy sacrifice so her life/death will mean something. But despite her exquisitely expressive face, we're denied any sort of dramatic payoff, and are left feeling as dejected as she.
Steve S. gave it a5:
Deliberately blank motivation and minimalist production, with seemingly half the picture in closeups of the star, work better as an abstract notion than in the result on screen. Dramatically, the end product is a do-it-yourself chore for the audience, more interesting as an experiment than as an artwork - sort of "The Blair Witch Project" of terrorist movies. If you want to see the same topic treated much more viscerally on a similarly low level of resources, rent "Cavite." That's genuinely horrifying.
