Cultural-examination drama based loosely around the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado, during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Starring mainly...
Cultural-examination drama based loosely around the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado, during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Starring mainly non-actors, the film follows the activities of six strangers over the course of one day, from sunrise to midnight, with the shooter among them.
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62 %52 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
28 %377 reviewsAudience score rating
"At once a glib play on words and a sobering rumination on the mindset of a suburban America simultaneously obsessed with and plagued by gun violence."
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Variety
Variety"There are serious risks in the movie's approach."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"The wordplay of the title is sufficiently egregious that a potential viewer is apt to think, "Well, if it got a distributor, it has to be better than that." It is not."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"The noble intention to make us dwell on our culture, and perhaps shame its more voyeuristic members, quickly devolves into a cavalcade of tedium."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Sutton's vision is unsettling and immersive, his technical precision immaculate."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"For all its artfulness, the film doesn't shed light so much as push buttons."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Dark Night is as much about gloom as it is astonishment, to see the power of an act or an image to either turn someone into a killer or to inspire them toward empathy."
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ColliderDark Night | Details
- Rating
- M, Offensive language & content that may disturb
- Runtime
- 85
- Genre
- Drama, True Story & Biography
- Country of origin
- USA
