"Moss highlights the personal struggles of many who find themselves re-awakened in northwestern North Dakota, and others who simply fade in and fade out."

| Jun 28, 2022

Although The Overnighters runs only 90 minutes, it feels much longer than that.

| Original Score: 2.8/5 | Nov 27, 2019

The big takeaway for me was how brutal the burden is for those who truly embrace the core conceits of the Christian faith and its insistence upon caring for any and all who need help, no matter the sins of their past.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 6, 2019

The fact that something so inherently dramatic comes from the world of non-fiction makes this feel like a truly rare sight.

| Original Score: 8.4/10 | Jun 12, 2019

A film that sheds layers like a rotting onion, this is cinema that forces a narrative that is constant.

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

Moss goes where the story takes him as Reinke's altruism increasingly appears to be an exercise in futility, chasing lost causes and threatening to become one himself.

| Nov 22, 2018

[Director] Jesse Moss struck gold with this documentary; he tells the story that many people have experienced without exploitation or loss of dignity.

| Nov 8, 2018

The Overnighters isn't just a movie about the economic crisis or the breakdown of the American Dream. Its powerful metaphors take it from very specific circumstances to something universal.

| Aug 31, 2018

If "The Overnighters" is accurate, Americans' sense of community has been sacrificed to tabloid fearmongering. It's a despairing look at how we got this way.

| Feb 16, 2018

It is a sobering, cautionary tale, and one well worth watching.

| Nov 28, 2017

It's about humanity: our paranoia, fear, and stubbornness to evolve into a species where peace could ever be a viable reality.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 26, 2016

One of the most potent examples of cinéma vérité to arrive in recent years, Jesse Moss's "The Overnighters" transcends the genre with a multifaceted examination of complex social issues facing the town of Williston, North Dakota.

| Original Score: A | Feb 26, 2015

An existentially probing documentary with more layers than a twisty Hollywood thriller, at turns inspiring, challenging, sobering and finally devastating.

| Original Score: A | Feb 25, 2015

Has been described as a 21st-century 'The Grapes of Wrath,' but its plot twists are of the type that might have caused Tom Joad to hightail it back to Oklahoma.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 29, 2015

This story, touching many social issues, is told on a very personal level. There is an extraordinary revelation near the end of the film. It is as if it was written by a great screenwriter, but instead, it is real life. Amazing.

| Original Score: A | Jan 19, 2015

It develops into a study of obsession, hypocrisy, righteousness and self-doubt, questioning motive and then gob-smacking the audience with the wholly unexpected.

| Original Score: B | Jan 5, 2015

While initially a gentle interrogation of Christian dogma, The Overnighters expands to a larger investigation of altruism and its roots in private psychologies.

| Original Score: A | Jan 5, 2015

In The Overnighters documentarist Jesse Moss found his story and pursued it with remarkable empathy, all in the best traditions of the genre.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Moss lets his characters and their stories unfold, crafting a film from them intuitively through the right interview questions and the art of editing, but never placing a narrative on it that feels forced.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Moss is an incredibly sympathetic filmmaker, and his master stroke is to structure The Overnighters as a portrait of both an individual and a community.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2015