Night Raiders

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Night Raiders

Released Nov 12, 2021

1h 37m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children's academy and get her daughter back. Night Raiders is a female-driven dystopian drama about resilience, courage and love.

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Critics Consensus

Night Raiders strikes grim parallels between its dystopian setting and the present, offering a disturbing reminder that the horrors of the past are often very much still with us.

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David Stratton

The Australian

Night Raiders is visually uninteresting and dramatically underwhelming.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 30, 2022

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Phuong Le

Guardian

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.

Rated: 2/5

Nov 29, 2021

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Tim Grierson

Screen International

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

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

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

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Carmen Paddock

TAKE ONE Magazine

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

Nov 30, 2023

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Jason Asenap

Esquire Magazine

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

Oct 12, 2022

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Adrian D

I am surprised by the large number of lukewarm reviews here on Rotten Tomatoes. This film is a absolute gem, and I can understand why Waititi was willing to Exec produce it. Yes, it is slow-paced at times, but this is a forgivable matter. The film's poignant messages about past, future, and present redeem it. For anyone who has spent any time interacting with indigenous US and Canadian folks, from this non-indigienous person who has done so, it seems to mesh well with my understanding of indigenous culture.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/14/24

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Jody L

Incredible movie and amazing actors.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/18/24

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Johon P

Very slow, overrated, the ending is terrible, basically an entire waste of time. And i am usually very lenient on movie critique

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/15/24

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Jeffrey P

This made what I felt was a fatal flaw by introducing a duo first and then splitting them up early on. Other films have done it, but if it is done with a known actor it's not seen as a duo. That issue aside, it starts with solid world building, average acting, but proceeds to make a couple unnecessary stops along the way and introduces a whole lotta characters we don’t need to know at the time they are introduced. All of that could have been cut in favor of more rising action being added later on. The ending is completely ridiculous.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/27/24

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KURT G

Starts off promising, but gets more and more lame.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/28/24

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Ryan H

I’ve never left a review before. The movie was such a massive disappointment that I just went online to vent, and to see if others had put into words the anger I was feeling to waste 90 minutes of my life. I almost stopped 1/2 way through from boredom, but was invested and thought maybe the ending would be good, or cause anything to make sense. The opposite happened; it was infuriatingly stupid and lazy. Spoiler: the movie decides to be sci-fi in the final seconds and the girl can control drones with her mind. You know, because Native Americans talk to birds. Uhg.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/20/24

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Synopsis

The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children's academy and get her daughter back. Night Raiders is a female-driven dystopian drama about resilience, courage and love.

Director: Danis Goulet
Producer: Georgina Allison Conder, Paul Barkin, Ainsley Gardiner, Chelsea Winstanley, Tara Woodbury
Screenwriter: Danis Goulet
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co: Uno Bravo, Alcina Pictures, Miss Conception Films, Eagle Vision
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 12, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 12, 2021
Runtime: 1h 37m

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