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Dark Night

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Dark Night

Released Feb 3, 2017

1h 25m

Horror

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The lives of six strangers are changed in one terrifying moment as a shooter opens fire at a cinema.

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Critics Consensus

Dark Night's narrative coherence isn't always on par with its visual beauty, but for patient viewers, it adds up to an absorbing, thought-provoking, and thoroughly singular statement.

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Michael Sragow

Film Comment Magazine

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

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

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

Rated: 4/5

Sep 6, 2017

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Jonathan Romney

Observer (UK)

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

Rated: 2/5

Aug 20, 2017

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

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

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 4, 2019

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Sean Mulvihill

FanboyNation.com

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

Rated: 3/5

Nov 1, 2018

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Hammer to Nail

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

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Jeffrey P

Intriguing to start out, slows down and becomes mundane as it progresses, robs you with the ending.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/25/24

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Audience Member

The Dark Night is an absolute waste of time. The film (if you can even call it that) is full of just empty space. The plot is completely unorganized. Even after finishing it; I still can't determine if this film takes place before, or after the 2012 Colorado Shooting. Dialogue is also practically absent. It took me 3 days to finish watching this, because I couldn't submit myself to watch this any longer than 8 minutes. This whole experience was complete torture. The film sucks, the ending was horrific, and the fact that Rotten Tomatoes rated this film at a %62 is baffling. That score is only %6 short of Joker's score. Did they actually watch this film? Don't listen to these, "movie critics," STAY AWAY FROM THIS FILM.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

The visuals in this film are outstanding but the story isn't good. I like the approach that the filmmakers took with this film. Even though the movie lacks a real story it's still very interesting to watch due to the visuals. The visuals make you think a lot. I think this is a very great indie film to watch. Love the artsy, dark mood and tone for this film. I think this film would've been much stronger with more dialogue. It felt much longer than 85 minutes due to the lack of dialgue.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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chris n

This is a poor man's "Elephant", only without any of the attributes that made that film worthwhile.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

How apt i thought, with the inspiring #MarchForOurLives occurring in Washington, to watch this. The director adopted the right approach in not sensationalising the cinema atrocity. It's just after 5-minutes you get it that the characters collectively mesh into a portrait of a dislocated society. You then have to sit through 80-minutes of skateboarding, selfies and PS4 violent games. Gus Van Sant's superb Elephant this is not.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Typical indie style, Never got to the point. Boring.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Synopsis

The lives of six strangers are changed in one terrifying moment as a shooter opens fire at a cinema.

Director: Tim Sutton
Producer: Alexandra Byer
Screenwriter: Tim Sutton
Distributor: Cinelicious Pics
Production Co: Ringling College Studio Labs
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 3, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 2, 2017
Runtime: 1h 25m

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