The Sleepover
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 21, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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64
PolygonKaren HanAug 27, 2020
It’s just enough entertainment to provide fodder for one diverting sleepover, but it’ll be forgotten as soon as the morning dawns. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAug 19, 2020
A giddy and fitfully amusing mashup of "Adventures in Babysitting," "Date Night," the Spy Kids franchise and, um, "Wet Hot American Summer," The Sleepover is the latest entry in Netflix’s experiment in catch-‘em-all entertainment. Read full review
60
The GuardianLeslie FelperinAug 21, 2020
Sie elicits mostly spontaneous, credible performances from the younger cast, who deliver their wisecracks and banter with aplomb and only occasionally edge into annoying child-actor pertness. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandAug 19, 2020
Softer and safer than a close cousin like “Adventures in Babysitting,” The Sleepover zips between its adult storyline and the wacky hi-jinks of the kids, scarcely noticing it’s the younger set who are far more amusing to watch. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 22, 2020
Sleepover is cheerful enough that it passes the time, even as that time passes ever-so-slowly as it stumbles for clues, through a Boston sight gag or two and into the “big finish” that’s more a series of minor busts. Leave this one to the tween-and-unders. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comNick AllenAug 21, 2020
The frantic adults and kids in Trish Sie’s The Sleepover are often screaming, but that doesn't mean they’re getting anywhere. You’d think that a story about a mom's cool secret and kids breaking curfew would be a lot more fun, especially with a charismatic cast like this, and yet The Sleepover is mostly about killing time, specifically that of your own. Read full review
45
CNNBrian LowryAug 20, 2020
The film simply lurches loudly from one mundane action scene to the next. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 21, 2020
Design values and Conrad W. Hall's photography are as flatly unimaginative as the rest of the film, which, in its avoidance of distinguishing features, would make a better candidate for witness-relocation anonymity than Margot does. Read full review
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The New York TimesKyle TurnerAug 21, 2020
As The Sleepover juggles the genres of heist movie, action thriller, scavenger hunt and teen/tween comedy, it never finds an identity which it slips into effortlessly, the way a good thief can. Read full review
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