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Sister Midnight

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A newly arranged marriage sees an oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls. They are alone, awkward and together. Cranky Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her complete lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbors and her bumbling spouse until one night she discovers strange new feral cravings.

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Mocking the pressures of matrimony with a sly wink, Sister Midnight is a thrilling genre-bender that's impossible to predict.

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

Sister Midnight is for those who like their pleasures a bit off-kilter : I was happy to lean into its blackly funny charms.

Rated: 3/5

May 30, 2025

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Karan Kandhari’s “Sister Midnight,” about a restless young housewife’s urban malaise, easily holds your attention for long stretches when seemingly little happens, but everything feels charged.

May 28, 2025

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Bilge Ebiri

New York Magazine/Vulture

Such depth makes Sister Midnight that much more fascinating and, ultimately, that much more heartbreaking.

May 19, 2025

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

... intriguing elements that don’t really lead anywhere pointed in the director’s exquisite-corpse-like script. That arbitrariness is somewhat frustrating. But unpredictability is also Sister Midnight’s charm.

May 30, 2025

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Nandini Ramnath

Scroll.in

While the fantastical element in Kandhari’s screenplay is too generic to give a plausible sense of an Indian woman rebelling against social conventions, his particular staging and Radhika Apte’s knockout performance pay rich dividends.

May 30, 2025

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Chris Joyce

Movies and Munchies (YouTube)

With beautiful visual symmetry and strangely effective stop-motion effects, the storytelling melds genres while also crafting a tale of loneliness, longing, and finding one’s self.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 30, 2025

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Lon W

OMG!! WENT IN COLD. NOT KNOWING A THING ABOUT FILM. WOW!! AN ALMOST ARTFUL INDIAN WES ANDERSON FILM THAT WAS SO DARK AND FUNNY AND DEADPAN AND CHALLENGING. AND HAVING T-REX SONG SHOW UP IN MIDDLE WHAT MORE COULD WE ASK FOR????? LOVED!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/31/25

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Roy J

Started of interesting, but then went nowhere and everywhere. The movie is about 40mins too long. I struggled and would have walked out if not for Radhika Apta

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

05/28/25

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Stephen C

LOL, 1 hour and 50 minutes of comedy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/26/25

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Moody C

Self indulgent artsy indie though stop motion feels more like cop out for budget reason rather than artistic choice. Cinematography is quite beautiful at times and whoever responsible for it shows great potential but desperately needs better editing to keep movie going. Unlike most Indian movies, this is actually short at just under two hours. For a film about female empowerment, this feels like a grim and joyless ordeal. I can’t say I laugh one bit at any time. But four stars for the smoking hot actress Radhika.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/20/25

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Kevin M

Um, what? What a mess. Sure the first hour sets up a normal movie of some sense, but the transition and everything that’s suddenly thrown in to try to be something else just makes it all nonsense. The only saving grace was that my local movie theater offered a mystery viewing of this thing for free. I guess that’s the only way they thought they could get an audience.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/08/25

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Penny M

Funny, weird, surprising, beautifully shot. Radhika Apte gives a great performance and you'll have fun spotting a few film references too. Maybe not for everyone but I enjoyed this immensely.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Synopsis

A newly arranged marriage sees an oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls. They are alone, awkward and together. Cranky Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her complete lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbors and her bumbling spouse until one night she discovers strange new feral cravings.

Director: Karan Kandhari
Producer: Alastair Clark, Anna Griffin, Alan McAlex
Screenwriter: Karan Kandhari
Distributor: Magnet Releasing
Production Co: Wellington Films, Griffin Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 16, 2025, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $41.2K
Runtime: 1h 50m