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By Daniel Green (105) for CineVue (2,163) on 09 Oct 2014

The only thing Joffe's Before I Go to Sleep has going in its favour is that it's too brief to really lull you into slumber - despite its best efforts,…

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By Laurence Phelan (27) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 04 Sep 2014

A lack of consequence and an absence of character development are to be expected in a film about a woman whose life is reset every night, but…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 04 Sep 2014

You couldn't say that Before I Go to Sleep isn't entertaining. But you couldn't say it was remotely plausible or logical either…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 04 Sep 2014

Joffé needed to find a visual language to make Christine's point of view loom large. He fluffs it…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 03 Sep 2014

A rousing, blood and thunder mystery that works even better if you have yet to read the book…

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By Henry Barnes (139) for Guardian (4,584) on 03 Sep 2014

It aims for sexy and/or dangerous, but the tone is dry and the pace lags…

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By Dominic Corry (151) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 03 Sep 2014

Before I Go to Sleep is the kind of casually effective thriller we see too little of these days…

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By Deborah Ross (530) for The Spectator (1,162) on 03 Sep 2014

In short, it's the sort of film during which you think about everything you shouldn't be thinking about during a film…

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By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 03 Sep 2014

Before I Go To Sleep is chiefly a grand manipulation with just about enough clever twists to keep you, if not on the edge of your seat, at…

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By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 03 Sep 2014

Strong performances keep the viewer guessing as much as our heroine, but the character drama recedes as the thriller element builds, to its detriment…

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By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 03 Sep 2014

Best we all just pretend like this never happened and move on…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 03 Sep 2014

A clever premise can't help but grab the audience's attention as this mystery-thriller plays with ideas of identity and memory, but the simplistic…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Sep 2014

As a thriller, Before I Go To Sleep is perfectly effective, but while director Rowan Joffe keeps the twists coming, something about Kidman’s…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2014

There’s perilously little playfulness to be found either in the script or its otherwise handsomely ashen cinematic treatment…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The List (2,018) on 31 Aug 2014

Promises an exploration of memory and its relationship with identity but in the main delivers only superficial, yet admittedly stylish, thrills…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 31 Aug 2014

Writer-director Rowan Joffe’s adaptation of S.J…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for BBC.com (1,500) on 20 Aug 2014

Roland Joffé has constructed a briskly paced, devilishly clever cat-and-mouse game, with a shivery atmosphere and an impressively tight focus…

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