Sundown
Bleecker Street | Release Date: January 28, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJan 31, 2022
As a whole, the film lacks the courage of its own despair. The longer it goes on, the more Franco feels obliged to pack it with plot and context. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubLeila LatifJan 26, 2022
Sundown has more substance, and a more intriguing premise, than most of Franco’s proudly sadistic work. But it still amounts to just a lot of artfully composed bleakness. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJan 27, 2022
Through no fault of Mr. Roth’s, his character isn’t interesting enough to sustain our involvement in the story. Neil’s detachment doesn’t intrigue us, it only detaches us in our turn. Read full review
50
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiJan 27, 2022
Ultimately, Michel Franco’s Sundown feels hollow and too nihilistic for its own good. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBeandrea JulyJan 26, 2022
Sundown lands more like a one-note thought exercise than a fully fleshed out story. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 7, 2021
As a character study of a man with good reason to wean himself off the very basic human instinct of hope and teach himself, even at some personal cost, to care for no one and nothing, Sundown gains texture from its stark setting in a seaside playground stained with blood. But of all the director’s films to date, this might be the most airless. Read full review
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