Sleepwalking Critic Reviews

Terrific performances and a bleak, riveting look at life on the economic fringes eventually gives way to an overly familiar tale of abuse, denial and catharsis that feels like warmed over Sam Shepard minus the poetry.Read the full review

Portentous and dull, the film features one of the worst over-the-top performances by Dennis Hopper, who plays an abusive father.Read the full review

Well-intentioned to a fault, Sleepwalking blurs the line between dramatizing free-floating misery and spreading it.Read the full review

The overly simplistic script by Zac Stanford (“The Chumscrubber”) hits nothing but high notes, making the whole dramatically less than the sum of its parts.Read the full review

The movie seems terrified of true psychological complexity or perversity. It's less a family tragedy than a lousy country dirge.Read the full review

A feeling of hopelessness pervades Sleepwalking.Read the full review

Even if the movie takes you to some dark places you would rather not visit, at least you will remember the actors who navigate the tortured journey.Read the full review

As Mr. Maher, in his feature directing debut, brings in surreal touches and puts on literary airs, the film’s grip loosens, and its vernacular turns increasingly wooden.Read the full review

An inert, sloppily written melodrama as grim and featureless as its frozen Midwestern setting.Read the full review