Coming Home in the Dark never lets up until the very end. The suffering is extensive, and the sorrow is ceaseless. There is only so much people can take before they have to look away out of fear for their own wellbeing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2023

With his debut, Ashcroft shows a knack for bringing visceral thrills to a genre audience craving some gnarly fun in the middle of the night.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2022

In the end, Coming Home in the Dark provides enough intellectual stimuli with adequate gritty tension to chew on, even if it isnt entirely persuasive in its intent.

| Apr 20, 2022

...Gillies' magnetic, electrifying work here, which remains an ongoing highlight, plays a key role in sustaining the picture's tense atmosphere...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 22, 2022

While the story is incredible on its own, the acting is what makes this a truly unforgettable movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2021

Tense thriller.

| Original Score: B | Oct 29, 2021

Successful purely as a lean, gritty seen-it-all-before survival thriller, Coming Home in the Dark really shifts into another gear when the weight of the story drops

| Oct 18, 2021

It's Gillies' performance that raises Coming Home in the Dark from fascinating to utterly chilling, complimenting Matt Henley's cold, angular cinematography and John Gibson's score.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 15, 2021

Makes the most of the plot's obscurities and limitations, and Gillies' dedicated performance gives it a good extra push.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 9, 2021

A tense thriller that hinges on a seemingly random act of violence, James Ashcroft's debut feature offers a gritty meditation on the insidious ripple effect of trauma.

| Original Score: 3.75/5 | Oct 6, 2021

The filmmaking and acting talent on display is undeniable.

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

Even the most shocking moments are rooted in strong character work.

| Oct 1, 2021

A riveting, provocative and terrifying psychological horror film.

| Original Score: 8.60345/10 | Oct 1, 2021

Daniel Gillies and Matthias Luafutu overcome a muddled third act to stand out in James Ashcroft's coldly endearing thriller.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Sep 30, 2021

With long, hypnotic sequences which speak to that feeling one can experience when driving late at night, somehow separate from the ordinary world, Coming Home In The Dark takes us to familiar places and renders them strange.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2021

Ashcroft and his cast - and especially Gillies as the menacing and charismatic Mandrake - excel at drawing out the moment-to-moment tension of a crime in progress.

| Sep 30, 2021

While the whole thing is ruthlessly well done, it also sometimes seems to lean into a kind of moral relativism.

| Sep 30, 2021

...leans more on psychology than outright gore, often artfully obscuring its worst moments. This is the type of film able to inspire overwhelming dread with an overhead shot of a vehicle circling back on a gas station

| Original Score: B | Sep 27, 2021

A thriller with questions about the nature of guilt.

| Original Score: B | Sep 26, 2021

Tense, nerve-wracking and unrelenting, feats it achieves in no small part thanks to its knife's-edge balancing act.

| Sep 12, 2021