Goulet imbues her film with a social realist bent to explore the lingering trauma of colonialism, and specifically Canada's residential school system, and the Cree peoples’ unwavering resilience.

| Feb 13, 2024

NIGHT RAIDERS never lets up its atmosphere of dread, in large part due to the meticulousness of its worldbuilding.

| Nov 30, 2023

Writer-director Danis Goulet's new film shines a light on a raw wound from which Indigenous cultures are still healing.

| Oct 12, 2022

Night Raiders is visually uninteresting and dramatically underwhelming.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2022

All the paths Night Raiders explores are original to a certain extent and don't fall into obviousness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 29, 2022

The lean, genuinely nerve-wracking delivery elevates this story into an incredibly engaging and memorable sci-fi laced with very powerful messages around oppressions, and indigenous peoples' rights and heritage.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 8, 2022

[A] rousing New Zealand/Canadian co-production made by indigenous talent from both countries.

| Mar 25, 2022

A haunting, vibrant, thought-provoking tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2022

Theres no room for complexity, and it feels as if you never really delve deep into characters psyches

| Mar 22, 2022

Though ambitious to a fault and slightly rough around the edges, Night Raiders is a modernized and vital encapsulation of Canadas (and other nations) history with Indigenous peoples.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2022

[T]he movie is an intense drama about family and the consequences of authoritarian government - real and imaginary.

| Dec 12, 2021

A clever and inventive dystopian thriller which tackles historic abuses of native peoples.

| Dec 1, 2021

Solid performances from Tailfeathers and Letexier-Hart can't elevate a script that is neither effective as straight sci-fi nor a subversion of the genre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2021

It's a mixed bag, but one whose ambitious seriousness made it worth a watch.

| Nov 16, 2021

A solid dystopian drama that, as is often the case with formula, is more about the present than the future.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 14, 2021

The dystopian sci-fi drama is approached from a fresh perspective in Night Raiders, a deeply-felt parable about the eradication of indigenous North Americans.

| Nov 13, 2021

Where it easily could have bogged down and wallowed in hopelessness or despair at the insurmountable odds, it never does.

| Original Score: B | Nov 12, 2021

While this sort of wan rebellion yarn seems to have been designed with a general audience in mind, there's nothing here that's so culturally specific or emotionally focused as to earn our emotional investment.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 12, 2021

Night Raiders is a muddle, likely to leave those not already attuned to the issues trying to figure out what the point of it all is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2021

In suggesting something more thoughtful without delivering any follow-through, Night Raiders only avoids anonymity by being both so notably shallow and dull.

| Nov 12, 2021