The going is very slow, and unlike other films that manage to have a single character carry the film while keeping the audience engaged, it becomes tedious not too far in.

| Original Score: C+ | May 9, 2024

The Night Ate the World is unhurried, thought-provoking, and features an absorbing performance from Anders Danielsen Lie to make something new out of an aged premise.

| Nov 9, 2022

The Night Eats the World is a well-crafted nightmare that holds its own among the best zombie films in recent memory.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 27, 2021

A character study around coping with change and loneliness. Also, a fresh French zombie film for those who are more into music than horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021

I don't think groundbreaking would be the right word but I think it's satisfyingly different,,, and I can see why people would love or hate it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 16, 2020

Non-vocal zombies make for a fine and creepy innovation. And not a rampaging horde in sight.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2020

Zombies might not be all that scary, but being trapped with your own thoughts is terrifying.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 18, 2020

A sparse, spare character study that serves as a showcase for Danielsen Li, "The Night Eats the World" puts an inventive spin on the zombie movie and breathes a bit of new life into the horror subset.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 30, 2020

An intriguing amalgam of arthouse and pop genre impulses, this French zombie film exemplifies a worldwide trend - with mixed results.

| Jun 26, 2020

... the film makes great points and says something without actually fully spelling it out, but by using feelings and emotions.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2020

Parisian muso Sam sleeps through a zombie attack and wakes to find the City of Light plunged into existential darkness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2019

The Night Eats the World is a minimalist horror film, well made and very well acted and not without interest. But anyone expecting the usual thrills of a zombie movie will be quickly disillusioned.

| May 10, 2019

If you are going to take a dusty old premise, you have to be creative -- and director Dominique Rocher does this with flair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2019

The calm, almost sedentary pace of the film and its abundant visual findings justify a production that is not destined to revolutionize post-apocalyptic cinema, but that puts its grain of sand thanks to the great interpretations. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2019

Rocher's film is unable to maintain its strength the whole way, but manages to create a new look at zombies. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 9, 2019

Rocher prefers to fill dead times with acts that always want to mean something in his simple and tiresome way. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2019

...plays out like a French indie I Am Legend, with lashings of 28 Days Later-style fast paced action and surprising moments of existential rumination.

| Original Score: 17/20 | Mar 4, 2019

A refreshing 'Paris is for zombies' old school survival film.

| Original Score: B | Dec 23, 2018

It's an engaging and pretty little film, one that fits comfortably in the ranks of other "Last Man on Earth" stories like The Quiet Earth or Z for Zachariah.

| Dec 10, 2018

Injects some vitality into the stale zombocalypse subgenre not by discarding the form's constraints, but by making compelling structural and storytelling choices.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2018