The Sunlit Night

critic Reviews

, 32% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • Jenny Slate remains as charming as ever, but her winsome performance isn't enough to overcome The Sunlit Night's grating tone and meandering plot.
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    Alissa WilkinsonVox
    There's enough charm and whimsy for the story to escape coming across as too predictable... The Sunlit Night is a light and occasionally messy story of discovery, and Slate's performance anchors it all.
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    Kristy PuchkoCrooked Marquee
    The Sunlit Night is a ponderous, pretentious dud
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    Chris HewittMinneapolis Star Tribune
    I can easily imagine people who wouldn't like it, but there is something beautiful about how perfectly it locates a feeling of confusion, ambivalence and grief.
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    Stephanie ZacharekTIME Magazine
    The Sunlit Night feels somewhat incomplete, less a full-blown oil painting than a sketch skimmed over with a veil of watercolor. But Slate's vibrance shines right through no matter what.
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    Adam GrahamDetroit News
    Slate holds her own and shows glimpses at the story of artistic and personal awakening that "The Sunlit Night" could have been. But mostly it's trapped in the dark.
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    Angie HanFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
    It feels like it's been cobbled together from pieces of other, better movies.
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    Daisy Leigh-PhippardScreen Queens
    Too many threads tangle together without forming a pattern, and while there are flickers of feeling scattered through, its a shame that these lovely fragments of life never make up a whole.
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    Deborah KriegerBust Magazine
    It does feature an appealing lead performance from Slate, and is earnest and honest in its largely successful attempt to translate creative thinking onto the screen in equally creative ways.
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    Susan KamyabThis Chix Flix
    Slate does a fantastic job with the material she is given and the scenery is beautiful, but the "The Sunlit Night" fails to shine. It's a dim, dull tale.
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    Steven WarnerIn Review Online
    The rambling nature of [The Sunlit Night's] synopsis is a decent mirror to the film itself, a collection of scenes that never coalesce into anything greater.
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