Dark Night
| Release Date: February 3, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJan 27, 2016
Immersive and committed to its austere form, the solemn, often-dialogue free Dark Night never spoon feeds and always allows the viewer to draw their own conclusions. Read full review
91
IndieWireEric KohnJan 27, 2016
At every turn, the movie casts a haunting spell. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattFeb 3, 2017
It’s also a haunting, thought-provoking piece of work, made infinitely more powerful by all the things it chooses not to show. Read full review
83
The Film StageDan MeccaJan 27, 2016
Every grunt, groan, and eye-roll feels genuine and relatable. Read full review
80
The GuardianPhil HoadAug 24, 2017
Occasionally too emblematic as individuals, the characters collectively mesh into a portrait of a dislocated society elevated by Sutton’s talent for disorienting imagery. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeb 8, 2017
Sutton’s vision is unsettling and immersive, his technical precision immaculate. The sound design alone — long, ambient silences disrupted by a flashbulb-popping hallucination or a sudden scream — is reason enough to see the movie in a theater, whatever unpleasant associations the ending may conjure. Read full review
80
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlFeb 2, 2017
Sutton makes the concrete oblique, even mysterious. Read full review
80
Screen DailyDavid D'ArcyJan 27, 2016
Dark Night is a drama of grim inevitability. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Feb 1, 2017
Dark Night isn’t really a polemic. It’s a mysterious elegy for a community on the verge of a nightmarish crucible. Read full review
75
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJan 29, 2016
There are moments of true terror to be found among the silence and the encroaching existential dread in which the film deals most prominently. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 27, 2016
With a title easily confused for Christopher Nolan’s 2012 Batman sequel...Tim Sutton’s Dark Night is at once a glib play on words and a sobering rumination on the mindset of a suburban America simultaneously obsessed with and plagued by gun violence. Read full review
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