A matter-of-fact recapitulation, Dark Night isn't meant to entertain, but merely to convey, solemnly, the emptiness of contemporary connections.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 4, 2019

The movie is really lacking in an emotional punch to leave much of a lasting impact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2018

Dark Night is an extraordinarily accomplished mood piece saddled with a shallow condemnation of middle-American culture. The whole movie is like an extended art-house PSA.

| Mar 8, 2018

Director Tim Sutton ... working in a sleepy Florida town, [reveals] a world where opportunity rarely knocks and everyone is either nursing old wounds or hustling for a ticket out.

| Feb 25, 2018

[Dark Night] takes a macro approach to a disjointed society where guns are freely available and routinely glamorised.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2017

Elliptical and elusive, Dark Night offers vignettes of five individuals' lives over the course of a day.

| Aug 29, 2017

Dark Night offers nothing in the way of revelation, social or aesthetic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2017

This is an alarmingly trivial film that is also, allegedly, a commentary on the July 2012 mass shooting at a Colorado multiplex showing The Dark Knight Rises.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 17, 2017

Its attempts at social commentary are far too opaque and stuttering to hold the viewer's interest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2017

A film that brings little insight to a troubling issue.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2017

An ambitious, relevant piece of filmmaking that promises to make you think.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2017

Ghoulish and tedious.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 14, 2017

This portrait of an alienated culture funnelling its rage into gun violence is itself too cold and distant to connect.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2017

A worthy - if chilly and difficult - addition to the sadly extensive filmography of American mass murder. The soundtrack from Canadian singer-songwriter Maica Armata adds some much-needed heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2017

This isn't a film for everyone. It's incredibly dry. Almost mundane, at times... But these normal people find themselves in almost dreamlike surroundings thanks to Helene Louvart's beautiful cinematography.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2017

The abstracted events transpire, occur, invoke, weighted neither by plot nor a psychological accounting: an atmospheric dream of everyday things, a dark dream of all our todays, lustrous dread.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 24, 2017

There's something unpleasant - maybe more so than the filmmaker intended - about how we're not sure which of the men might turn out to be the eventual mass murderer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 24, 2017

Dark Night is an atmospheric, anxiety-tweaking outing. But cinematic elegance is not enough when the stakes are so very high.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 23, 2017

There's a difference between ambiguity and frustration, and Dark Night falls on the wrong side.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2017