30 Days of Night Critic Reviews

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Variety | Dennis HarveyAdd Critic to Favorites

Excels at bloodthirsty action, though dialogue and human-interest aspects are a tad anemic. Result is a mixed bag but has a catchy premise and quite enough splatter to satisfy gorehounds.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Directed by David Slade ("Hard Candy"), the action scenes are artful and terrifying; these killers move so quickly and decisively, there seems to be no hope for humanity.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Works on its own terms, which is more than can be said of most horror films these days. If this is the kind of movie you're looking for, it delivers.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie thus moves from truly creepy to truly inane, which is, unfortunately, all too common in films of this ilk.Read the full review

The New York Times | Matt Zoller SeitzAdd Critic to Favorites

The performers have little to do besides spill and drink blood in this tedious, inconsequential B picture. The sun doesn’t rise nearly fast enough.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Megan LehmannAdd Critic to Favorites

Dramatically, the film is a shambles, with whiplash-inducing lurches in tone and pacing that make it seem as if portions were edited out of sequence.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

You can expect a lot of shredding and gurgling. 30 Days of Night is relentless, but it's also relentlessly one-note.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter HartlaubAdd Critic to Favorites

A well-paced and entertaining horror debut.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

It is well-made, well-photographed and plausibly acted, and is better than it needs to be.Read the full review

USA Today | Scott BowlesAdd Critic to Favorites

It loses some of its bite by film's end, but 30 Days of Night manages to do for the vampire genre what "28 Days Later" did for the zombie flick: give age-old monsters a modern-day makeover.Read the full review

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