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State Like Sleep

2018

Meredith Danluck

Katherine Waterston, Michael Shannon, Michiel Huisman, Luke Evans ...

4.1

21

Thriller. Drama. Mystery One year after her husband's (Michiel Huisman) untimely death, a young widow (Katherine Waterston) receives an unsettling phone call that forces her to revisit the past. This woman should grapple with the consequences of her celebrity husband's double life after he commits suicide.

	Author	Review
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"Danluck over-complicates this muted slice-of-life, but a good cast mostly holds it together (...) The mix of genres and the overload of characters are too much of a drag on the film."	NEU
United States	Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"A thriller without thrills, where every setting that was once familiar has become loaded with a sense of dread. It pauses before turning any corner, anticipating horrors that never satisfyingly arrive.	NEG
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Many viewers will find the moniker a better description of their experience (...) The answers, once they arrive, are pretty unsatisfying"	NEG
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"This consistently surprising film slinks along with melancholic dreaminess, matching the fugue state that plagues its grief-stricken protagonist."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A narcotized neo-noir that unfolds with the diverting purposelessness of a forgettable dream"	NEG
United States	David Alm Forbes	"Waterston is one good reason to see [it]. Shannon is another. Together, they carry a script that in less expert hands would likely collapse under its own weight"	NEU
United Kingdom	David D'Arcy Screendaily	"[It] is unlikely to get viewers’ hearts racing. It will take more than the presence of Shannon, Waterston and Evans to fuel (...) this story"	NEG
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman The Wrap	"Does a fine job of recreating the dream-like fog of grief. But it doesn't go much further, and 'somnolence' isn't an ideal quality around which to build an entire film."	NEU

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