75
Metascore
36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonEisenberg does an enormous amount with what he has, proving to be sinister and vulnerable virtually within the same breath, and expertly putting across the torment he’s going through.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThis is mesmerically assured and tensile film-making, with two complex and plausible performances at its core, and the shin-stinging kick of a Chaucerian moral fable.
- 80The GuardianXan BrooksThe GuardianXan BrooksThis director, in the past, has shown herself to be an ace with the teasing, hanging ending and Night Moves saves the best for last.
- 80VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangKelly Reichardt blends her lucid observational approach with a topical-thriller format to engrossing effect in Night Moves.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAfter a terrific first hour that crescendos in an extended sequence of quiet yet potent white-knuckle suspense, the film loses some traction in the more challengingly paced second half. But it remains an engrossing reflection on radical violence and its fallout.
- 80The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyWhat happens at the dam, filmed at night, with only shimmering light, is the most nerve-racking sequence in recent movies. Reichardt, despite the film’s absences, has achieved an impressive control over the medium.
- 75Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoLike Michael Cera's two recent films with Sebastian Silva, Night Moves reveals the dark core contained within an actor's nice-guy neuroticism.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyWhile the first hour is evocative and suspenseful, the second doesn’t quite muster the depths of paranoia and doom you’re led to expect.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreReichardt hangs her film on Eisenberg, who subtly suggests a loner whose primary gift for the cause is he whole in his soul where a longing or human contact should be. It’s a terrific performance and it holds the movie together even as Night Moves stumbles toward its foregone, and rather poorly handled, conclusion.