It Comes at Night Reviews

Movie Reviews

• small, vivid moments, squeezed into a small physical and dramatic space, then tightened with a vice of suspense and dread

  by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News ]

• Shults has delivered a top-notch psychological thriller, but "It Comes at Night" builds an unnerving atmosphere around unspecified sci-fi circumstances

  Review rate : A- by Eric Kohn [Indiewire ]

• its buildups are impressive, but in the end its frights are mild

  by Soren Anderson [Seattle Times ]

• for his second film, Shults assembles a fantastic cast of actual actors, including Edgerton, who bring more emotional dynamics to the film's dramatic scenes to go beyond just being about the scares

  by Edward Douglas [NY Daily News ]

• a well-crafted, albeit entirely bleak exploration of paranoia and fear

  by Brian Truitt [USA Today ]

• a waking nightmare, heart-pounding and resonant

  by Sheri Linden [Hollywood Reporter ]

• a tense exercise in foreboding and paranoia that defies horror-film expectations at every turn

  by Cary Darling [DFW.com ]

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