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The Night

2020

Kourosh Ahari

Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Noor, George Maguire, Elester Latham ...

5.3

601

Horror. Mystery. Thriller An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.

	Media	Author	Review
		Richard Kuipers Variety	"Featuring excellent performances by Shahab Hosseini [and Niousha Jafarian] (...) [it] sneaks up on viewers and delivers a knockout final act"
		Matt Fagerholm rogerebert.com	"[A] remarkable evocation of Kubrickian horror"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Scares of the sophisticated variety (...) What makes the film work as well as it does is the psychological underpinning of the frequently surreal events that prove to stem from the couple's interpersonal conflicts"
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"While 'The Night' favors simplicity and doesn’t entirely reinvent the wheel, the heavily stylized, mind-bending slow burn never ceases to be engaging (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Hosseini and Noor are superb (...) 'The Night' has an aura of almost beautiful stillness, interspersed with moments of shock (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Randall Colburn AV Club	"[Its] surreality works on an aesthetic level, but as in 'The Babadook', the dreamlike scares are psychological to a fault. Ahari’s script is perhaps too focused on the secrets of its central couple"
		William Repass Slant	"It’s at this juncture between horror and philosophical surrealism that 'The Night' is at its most provocative (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"An intriguing and groundbreaking supernatural thriller (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Dianne Chung Irish Film Critic	"The fatal climax is almost enough to hypnotize the audience after a series of repetitive scares, but 'The Night' requires more than a shocking finish to be remembered as something more (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"Strong performances carry the plot (...) I’m not familiar with [the] filmmakers, but I was definitely impressed with the movie they’ve made here (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There’s nothing obviously new about The Night. But it is put together with great style, force and visual imagination (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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