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61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

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5.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 7 Ratings

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  • Starring: Luisa Williams
  • Summary: A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. (IFC First Take)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    100
    Astonishing.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    60
    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.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Howie Movshovitz
    60
    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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  1. Positive: 0 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. SteveS.
    5
    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.… Expand
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  2. LindaL.
    3
    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.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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