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Day Night Day Night

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Day Night Day Night reviews
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5.2 User Score:

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)

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...

100

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Astonishing.

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90

Village Voice J. Hoberman

Terror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating movie.

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80

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.

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75

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.

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75

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.

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63

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.

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60

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.

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60

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.

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50

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.

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50

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.

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50

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Maddeningly, purposefully evasive.

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50

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.

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42

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A stunt masquerading as a statement.

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40

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.

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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.

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