Confidently directed by David Bruckner from a clever script written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, "The Night House" excels in tension building -it is both unpredictable and unnervingly restrained.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2021

Rarely have I seen a movie in which simply everything demands clarification.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2021

Hall ties herself into pretzel-like knots: flying high one moment, wallowing in self-pity and despair a nanosecond later.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2021

Intelligent, emotionally compelling and visually sophisticated, for fans of darker fare and old-fashioned spooky stories, The Night House is unmissable.

| Aug 25, 2021

The Night House is a compelling meditation on the horror of one's own mind.

| Aug 24, 2021

The Night House is a strong argument for more films that let Rebecca Hall be a scream queen.

| Aug 24, 2021

Hall is the actor you want for this assignment... The British star has a default setting of keen, sturdy credibility that makes fear and self-disbelief all the more intrusive and alarming.

| Aug 23, 2021

It's skillfully executed enough to make The Night House worth a look on technical merit alone, turning every corner of a luxurious lake house into a site of deep dread.

| Aug 23, 2021

The fuzzy plotting is balanced by Hall's brilliantly controlled performance as the caustic, sceptical Beth, whose grief has pushed her to the knife edge of sanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2021

It never really comes to fruition and I felt frustrated by the end.

| Aug 21, 2021

Rebecca Hall grounds the ever-shifting film as it transforms from what seems like a straightforward ghost story into something murkier, more troubling and thoroughly unshakeable.

| Aug 20, 2021

Whatever small contrivances or inconsistencies might dwell in The Night House's story of a husband's secrets and the home they dwell within, they melt away as soon as the camera cuts to the face of its star.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2021

Intense and well-made, yet the narrative becomes tangled up in itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2021

Although let down by muddled plotting, The Night House is a low-key, well-made thoughtful horror flick, excellently played by Rebecca Hall.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2021

Once it loses the horror, the movie can't quite figure out how to combine the power of an expert performance with a muddled and confusing tale about grief, what we leave behind, and depression.

| Aug 20, 2021

Hall strives to carry The Night House on her more-than-capable shoulders, but she can't quite compensate for the moments when the movie is outright silly or, worse, boring.

| Aug 20, 2021

It's elegantly filmed and well constructed, building to a haunting climatic sequence that could sear your eyeballs.

| Aug 20, 2021

Bruckner doesn't just depend on Hall's performance but meets it with a mesmerizing visual style that doesn't just leave foreboding voids around her. Instead, it's an active use of empty space, constructing absences that have their own meaning.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2021

The film upends the clichés that practically define the ghost story in surprising and intriguing ways.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2021

Rebecca Hall's performance as a grief-stricken, haunted widow grounds and enhances director David Bruckner's ominous and striking horror feature.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2021