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The Vast of Night

2019

Andrew Patterson

Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz, Bruce Davis, Gail Cronauer ...

5.8

6,044

Sci-Fi. Mystery In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in Cayuga, New Mexico, a young, winsome switchboard operator Fay Crocker (Sierra McCormick) and charismatic radio DJ Everett Sloan (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. Dropped phone calls, AM radio signals, secret reels of tape forgotten in a library, switchboards, crossed patchlines and an anonymous phone call ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Amy Nicholson Variety	"[It] glows with charm and invention (...) A gentle thriller that chooses to impress with ingenuity and charm instead of special effects.	POS
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"An astonishing first feature. It works like gangbusters, start to finish. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"'The Vast Of Night' manages to be eerie and compelling despite unfolding mostly in a series of conversations and monologues"	POS
United States	Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"By turns intriguingly odd and frustratingly obscure, this is confidently quirky material that nonetheless boasts superior production values with style to spare."	POS
United States	Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting	"[It] may lose some narrative steam (...), but the confidence and gusto with which Patterson pulls off the visuals is laudable (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ryan Lattanzio IndieWire	"[A] genuinely spooky charmer (...) While the film offers a familiar B-movie story, it does so with heart and genuine sincerity (...) It’s that earnestness that makes 'The Vast of Night' so appealing"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Mile-a-minute dialogue and showy unbroken tracking shots make this enjoyable 1950s-set mystery a worthy homage to 'The Twilight Zone' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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