Insomnia
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78 out of 100

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7.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 135 Ratings

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  • Starring: Al Pacino, Hilary Swank, Robin Williams
  • Summary: From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan ("Memento") comes the story of Will Dormer (Pacino), a veteran LAPD detective who travels to a small Alaskan town with his partner Hap (Donovan) to investigate the disturbing murder of a seventeen year-old girl. (Warner Bros.)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 36
  3. Negative: 1 out of 36
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    100
    A rare case of an American remake that actually improves on a European movie.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    80
    Like the best thrillers it dives below the ordered surface of the genre into the coldest waters of the individual soul, where Hitchcock and David Lynch and Dostoyevsky have ventured. Does Christopher Nolan belong in that company? Not quite yet, but he's on the way.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Nolan's intention was clearly to cast the material in a more conventional Hollywood mold without turning it into namby-pamby nonsense, and he succeeds admirably.
  4. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    38
    Nolan pushes the twilight-zone atmosphere so hard that it loses its capacity for mystery. When it's not assaulting us with jolting audiovisual expressions of fatigue, this movie plays like a pedestrian response to David Lynch's effortlessly eerie "Twin Peaks."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 46
  3. Negative: 11 out of 46
  1. gregors.
    9
    A very well made movie: the progression of the plot, the rythm, the images, the music. A super note to Al Pacino's high acting. With Donnie Brasco and the Heat 'face_à_face' scene with De Niro, it's, imo, of his reallly best work here. Full of nuances, small things in the way he reacts to some lines, his intonation, ....Very impressive artist. Robin Williams offers a very convincing 'counterpart', and the dialogues between Pacino & him work totally. David Julyan's score is of great quality, following the tone of Memento. Insomnia and Memento have many links, besides (flashes, camera moves, music, the ambiguity of the 'hero', etc...) A real good work, anyway; Thank you Christopher Nolan.… Expand
  2. AlvaradoKTA
    8
    Directed by Nolan and starring Al Pacino, Insomnia is nothing short of a thrilling masterpiece. This is a great film for lovers of psychological thrillers.… Expand
  3. marshallm.
    6
    It was ok, not as good as his other movies tho.
  4. MaraD.
    3
    Despite the expected great acting from the main cast, the film seemed eternal and I found myself waiting for it to end. It is ironically the cure for it's own title.… Expand

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