Sister Midnight
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: May 16, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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16
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3
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0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMay 14, 2025
A delightfully zonked marital satire that lurches in various demented directions. Read full review
83
IndieWireProma KhoslaNov 27, 2024
The film is both masterfully unadorned and wholly original, steering forward confidently under Kandari’s guidance. It’s a movie best viewed with absolutely no primer, a delicious little adventure with a humorous — and human — heart. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 23, 2025
Like a movie DJ, Kandhari is flexing a pulpy mood of big-city dislocation, building a trippy, jarring and blackly funny experience out of a city’s stray colors, sounds and personalities. Read full review
80
Film ThreatSabina Dana PlasseMay 22, 2025
Kandhari delivers a story one might never expect, lingering with you long after it ends, which is long-winded. He captures many details from set to screen with honest conviction, making them memorable within a very unusual but novel story. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 20, 2025
Karan Kandhari’s colorful and deeply odd Sister Midnight, about the frustrations of a young woman in a working-class corner of Mumbai, is one of those movies that starts over here and ends waaay over there. But the film comes by its tonal shifts and narrative changes honestly — its twists are organic and rooted in character — which is quite an accomplishment for a feature directing debut Read full review
80
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerMay 16, 2025
Kandhari’s film emerges as an off-kilter treatise on identity, and what cultural, social, and physiological elements can shape it, even well into adulthood. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMar 13, 2025
So joyous and inventive is each scene that it proves easy to disregard the ambling lack of plot. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 12, 2025
It’s a great comic turn from Apte who deserves to be better known. Read full review
80
Little White LiesAnton BitelMar 11, 2025
Playing like a Jarmusch – or Amirpour – joint, Sister Midnight is a droll, strange, cool freak of a film, never quite finishing its own sentences or following through on narrative expectation. Read full review
80
Time OutHanna FlintNov 26, 2024
By the final act, Sister Midnight breaks free from the shackles of submissive feminine stereotypes and raucously leans into a woman behaving very, very badly. Read full review
75
Washington PostTy BurrJun 10, 2025
Startling, dreamlike, frustrating, funny — Karan Kandhari’s debut feature, “Sister Midnight,” is an absolute original. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 20, 2025
Apte is the riveting center of it all, making sense out of nonsense, and when she can’t, just bluffing and bullying her unfiltered way towards enlightenment, or something just short of it. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonMay 16, 2025
There are laughs aplenty, even as “Sister Midnight” begins to lose creative steam, with the wheels falling off, and the further it falls into the repetitive macabre. But Apte remains the glue holding it all together as the film imagines its prototype of the monstrous feminine. Read full review
70
Screen RantBrennan KleinMay 16, 2025
There is a lot to recommend it, including a strong visual sense (especially when it comes to the many scenes that feature single light sources), solid performances (particularly Apte, who commands every second of her screentime, which is essentially every second of the movie), and plenty of kooky moments the likes of which are not going to be seen in any other movie this year. Read full review
70
Screen DailyWendy IdeJan 25, 2025
The film’s main asset is Apte, a gifted physical comedian who puts the dead into deadpan, and loads every gesture with an aggressive, almost demented slap-stick infused humour. Read full review
67
The Film StageDevan SuberMay 13, 2025
Whatever its easygoing nature, Sister Midnight remains entertaining and visually distinguished, with aid from Interpol’s Paul Banks on the score. It may not fully congeal, but neither does Uma––that’s just life. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanMay 15, 2025
In his first feature, Kandhari makes use of morbid humor and expressive imagery, including stop-motion effects. He rarely relies on dialogue and favors a fuzzier plot, which leaves the story with a shapeless and sometimes confusing midsection. Read full review
60
EmpireYasmin OmarMar 14, 2025
An over-eager, idea-stuffed debut that keeps you engaged with its surprising twists, but which nevertheless could have used a little pruning. Read full review
60
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaJan 25, 2025
The story soon gets away from Kandhari, leading to a film that enraptures and delights in its first hour but gets so locked in to a singular approach by its second that it’s practically consumed by its own style, rendering it unable to keep pace with the bold ideas at play. Read full review
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