The actors don't get the opportunity to really build out these characters or to explore the coming-of-age touches in Shawna's story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 25, 2021

Black As Night is assembled in an uninspired YA style that only accentuates the weaknesses of its script, which is laden with stilted dialogue and cringeworthy voiceover.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 9, 2021

The Blumhouse release examines power structures with lots of fun scares.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2021

It works well enough as a teen supernatural melodrama, reasonably slick if a tad silly - less well as straight-up horror, let alone as a commentary on race-centric historical and political issues that never feel more than pasted-on here.

| Oct 2, 2021

It's the kind of movie that might not be as charming if you've seen 100 vampire movies, but if you're also curious about bloodsucker tropes, and the real-life world that surrounds its lead character, it has just enough of a soul.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2021

The special effects are fine, if unremarkable, but the actors are into it and the script manages to be thoughtful without dampening the fun.

| Sep 30, 2021

"Black of Night" in some ways isn't the movie it might have been. In other ways, it's the movie other horror films are not.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2021

This is a cheerfully unburdened treatment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2021